@CreativeBliss4U
Blocking the scammers would involve making it harder to open a new account on Etsy, which may sound simple, but in fact it is not.
Making it harder to join the site would mean making it hard for everyone including new buyers. If you came to a site for the first time as a buyer and the sign-up process read like a tax audit, would you want to join? Many would not, who wants to have to give out their private information and prove their identity just to shop here? And that would mean a lot of forum threads from sellers asking "where are all the new buyers" and "why is Etsy driving people away"?
Alternatively Etsy could start reading all new messages to determine if they were genuine buyer enquiries or scam attempts. I daresay that would cause further outrage in the seller community and possibly breach privacy laws in some locations.
Etsy does what they can, there have been plenty of warnings about scammers on the main site and in the seller areas, banners in shopfronts, and on the forum pages. Etsy has been removing scammer accounts rather quickly of late, often before the unsuspecting buyers can even answer the messages. We see loads of posts from new sellers asking why they can't answer a "buyer enquiry" or an "Etsy support" message. The answer is that Etsy has already removed the account.
Bottom line is, the internet is and always has been a "user beware" activity. We all need to educate ourselves as to the dangers and read up on how things work before jumping eagerly into a site.
