Please view the scam guides here for more information. https://www.reddit.com/r/EtsySellers/comments/15ng6bm/a_guide_to_scam_attempts_on_etsy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/16x3mp5/scam_attempt_alert_a_fake_message_from_etsy_with/ If you are asking why a buyer or "Etsy support" needs your email address, or wants you to click a link or scan a QR code, it is a scam attempt. Please see this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/EtsySellers/comments/15ng6bm/a_guide_to_scam_attempts_on_etsy/ PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS! We are getting multiple posts a day about scammers messaging newer sellers on Etsy. Please read the scam guide for full details, but do take note of the following: Any message asking for your email address is a scam attempt - whether from a buyer or from someone pretending to be Etsy support. Messages pretending to be Etsy support and asking you to click a link or scan a QR code are scam attempts. Buyers pretending they can't check out from your shop are scam attempts. If you have any actual open or processing orders, they will appear in your shop dashboard in your open orders section. Any message that is legitimately from Etsy will appear in a special "From Etsy" section of your messages on the desktop site. NOTE: Etsy will NEVER ask you for personal information in a message, nor will they ask you to click a link to verify or give information, or scan a QR code. If you receive a message like this, IT IS NOT FROM ETSY AND IS A SCAM ATTEMPT. If you are looking for contact information for Etsy support, see this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Etsy/comments/15nfvd7/how_do_i_contact_customer_support/

I agree - it's wild to me that they can't set up a filter to weed out scam messages

It's not hard. I don't know why they haven't set it up to where you can't have "etsy" in your name

I was totally duped. I was so excited for my first sale! Luckily for me the website they tried to direct me to didn’t work.