Fake Amazon Seller Central or Amazon FBA account suspended or disbursement hold phishing — fraudulent email impersonating Amazon Seller Central, Amazon FBA, or Amazon Marketplace claiming the recipient's seller account has been suspended, flagged, or that disbursements have been withheld or placed on hold — directing them to click a link to appeal, verify their identity, provide bank account or routing number, submit tax information, or confirm business details to restore selling access and release held funds — a credential-harvesting and financial data theft attack targeting Amazon sellers whose business income depends on continuous marketplace access and timely disbursements

Phishing emails impersonating Amazon Seller Central, Amazon FBA, or Amazon Marketplace — claiming the recipient's seller account has been suspended for a policy violation, listings removed, or disbursements withheld pending a review — then directing them to verify identity, provide bank routing details, submit tax ID, or confirm business information to restore selling privileges and release held funds. Amazon Seller Central phishing is a high-impact category targeting a platform with critical business dependencies. Key facts: (1) Amazon has 9.7M+ registered sellers globally with 2M+ active sellers generating the majority of their income from the marketplace — for these sellers, a sudden account suspension means immediate income loss of hundreds to thousands of dollars per day; the threat creates extreme urgency comparable to account deactivation for any major income source; (2) "Disbursement withheld" lures are highly effective because Amazon genuinely withholds payments for accounts under review, new high-volume sellers, and accounts with elevated chargeback rates; fake disbursement hold notifications exploit this legitimate mechanism; (3) Amazon seller phishing frequently harvests bank routing details under the guise of "payment method verification" — Amazon Seller Central does collect US bank account information for disbursements, making routing number requests contextually plausible to sellers; (4) Tax ID (SSN/EIN) and W-9 requests are particularly effective for Amazon seller phishing because Amazon does require W-9 forms from US sellers with annual sales above certain thresholds for tax reporting; (5) Amazon Seller Central account management, appeals, policy violations, and payment verification all occur exclusively through the authenticated Seller Central dashboard at sellercentral.amazon.com — Amazon never requests bank or tax information via email links. Warning signs: non-amazon.com domain, account suspension or disbursement hold with external link, bank routing or tax ID requested via email.