There’s a customer transparency (and loyalty) opportunity here for Sellers, especially those who have their own shop site, to communicate clearly and upfront about:
where Buyers might (and won’t) see additional costs on your site/products,
how you will (and won’t) contact your Buyers if there’s ever a charging error,
if you have a process for Buyers to double-check the authenticity of messages purporting to be from you or notifications, and
how to report a scammer/scam message.*
People will expect to be paying more for their goods, but they might not understand where that price will be tacked on — enabling bad actors to request faux tariff-related payments or advertise relief that won’t ever come.
*The article urges consumers and businesses to report attempted or successful scam attempts to the BBB Scam Tracker at https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker.
Does anyone have any additional suggestions for reporting that a scammer is targeting your business by contacting your customers or using your name?
BforeAI’s PreCrime Labs team found roughly 300 tariff-related domain registrations for cybercriminal use, according to the cybersecurity company’s recent report.
Just because the public does not yet know of a scam attempt does not make it hypothetical.
