We have detected unusual activity on your Amazon account ........

[Dynamicpull]

Hi, I will just cut to the chase and let you know my issues

I have been dropshipping from amazon to ebay for a couple years now and made 1000s of new buyer accounts using physical uk giftcards via virtualbox and mobile tethering. 1 or 2 out of 100 may get put on hold due to suspicious activity and this is a number I am OK with.

I was doing this on my macbook but since the ram is only 8gb, I decided to build a custom PC so I can create the vms much faster. I paid someone for this and I now use WIN10 as my host OS. For some reason the new PC does not have a wifi driver so I has to buy a wifi adaptor (USB-AC53 Nano) to connect to my mobile hotspot.

But since using this new PC, it seems 1 or 2 out of every 10 accounts are now getting put on hold due to suspicious activity so my risk has jumped from 1% to 10% :(.

Could anybody tell me any reason why there has been a jump in the risk. Is it the new OS host leaking information to the VMs or maybe the wifi adaptor is casuing it. I cant seem to figure it out and ANY help would be very helpful ?

[Beautiful]

Its your giftcards creating the issues

Buyer shops with GCs are just high risk - you'll have a hard time keeping/making shops unless they have AVS

[Dynamicpull]

Originally Posted by Beautiful

Its your giftcards creating the issues

Buyer shops with GCs are just high risk - you'll have a hard time keeping/making shops unless they have AVS

hey thanks for the response!
I was using the same GCs before, so do you know why it wasnt an issue before the computer change ?

[rsot]

Could be that the use of the particular GC in question is just causing high risk situation because of new coding on the backend of AZ - i'm just thinking out loud.

[Dynamicpull]

Originally Posted by rsot

Could be that the use of the particular GC in question is just causing high risk situation because of new coding on the backend of AZ - i'm just thinking out loud.

New coding? Could you elaborate please

[rsot]

Originally Posted by Dynamicpull

New coding? Could you elaborate please

If you think about it - a particular line of GCs could get flag as high risk if a sudden spike in bogus activity with them....

[Dynamicpull]

Originally Posted by rsot

If you think about it - a particular line of GCs could get flag as high risk if a sudden spike in bogus activity with them....

Spoke to virtualisation expert and it seems win10 might be leaking some information so I know have linux mint. NAT network also may lead to some networking fingerprint so will used bridged. Anybody else understand this ???

[Beautiful]

Its unlikely your system setup. Most likely the GCs

Just because they worked before doesn't mean they'll work forever

VCCs/GCs gets blacklisted all the time on Amazon, you need more variations

[fatfarmer]

Why not go back to your MacBook with the same gift cards, if it doesn’t leak then you it’s yours setup. Hopefully you haven’t thrown it away.

[SaiJin]

Gift cards are very very temperamental on Amazon, I wouldn't even dare to use them.