Accounts

Account Overview

Amazon requires accounts for all purchases made on their website. You will not be able to do a guest checkout without an account.

Number of Accounts Needed

While it may be tempting to sit down and create hundreds of Amazon accounts, it is not the best idea to. Amazon botting is more about quality vs quantity. You don’t want to make a bunch of accounts that will get flagged immediately after one electronic purchase.

It is best to use accounts that have some age and purchase history. This will factor into the “quality” aspect of your account. If you are purchasing items with increased level of fraud protection such as GPU’s and consoles, the account is at higher risk of getting placed on hold after a purchase.

This is why it is not recommended to make hundreds of accounts. It can be very expensive to maintain a high number of accounts through purchases for purchase history, Amazon Prime, etc. You want to build up a new account as much as possible so it appears more legitimate.

Five accounts to one address is a good number when starting off with Amazon. Amazon can link all accounts to one address, so it is not recommended to make a high number of accounts for the same address. They can link them together during the account review process once it is placed on hold, and having more accounts linked will make it more difficult to have them reinstated often.

Account Providers

There are providers that sell aged Amazon accounts with at least one purchase on it. I would recommend not using these however, as they are stolen accounts and not as likely to pass reinstatement when the account goes on hold at some point and needs to be verified. The information you use for a purchase will be different than the information that was used on the account prior to it being stolen, so this will be a major red flag there to Amazon.

Account Creation Tools

There are tools such as Kalevala, Jolt, SMKR, Gaden, etc, that you can use to generate accounts. However, it is not necessary to use them. You will want to note the proxy used to create the account however, as well as any profile information stored on the account for reinstatement purposes as needed.

Mobile Verification

Amazon does not require all accounts to have a phone number associated with them. However, depending on how you are making them, they may require you to input phone numbers at some point.

If you are prompted to add a phone number before creating an account, you will need to have a number that can receive SMS codes and then input that verification code. You can do this with personal phones or with SMS verification sites such as pvaverify or pvacodes. Note that Amazon restricts the amount of times a phone number can be used for account verification.

Once you add a phone number to an account, you will want to remove it afterwards so it does not prompt an SMS code to that phone number later on. This will be explained in the Making Amazon Account section.

Quality of Accounts

The quality of an Amazon account is very important for avoiding account holds and cancellations. The quality of an account depends on a few factors, such as the age, purchase history, legitimacy of information used, avoiding fraudulent characteristics, etc.

Age

The age of an Amazon account will play a role in Amazon’s fraud review process. An account that’s at least a few months old is less likely to get placed on hold after a high valued item is purchased such as a console or GPU.

When using new accounts, you are much more likely to have an account placed on hold for billing verification than an older account. Note that accounts that have been inactive for years and suddenly active with new billing info can raise red flags. While it’s tempting to purchase aged accounts for Amazon, keep in mind that opens up a whole new wave of potential fraud indicators to Amazon.

You can make new accounts and have orders stick on them, but this will require some purchase history ideally and avoiding other fraudulent characteristics.

Purchase History

Purchase history can help a lot to avoid Amazon placing a hold on your account after a successful checkout.

This can be as simple as making 1-2 purchases for household items such as soap, shampoo, etc. You will ideally want to use an account that has at least been used to purchase one or two items before using it to run for high valued electronics that Amazon has more strict fraud review processes in place for.

Older accounts of course with lots of purchase history will work very well, so long as you don’t have characteristics of fraud such as IP address jumping from different ones consistently.

Legitimacy of Info

Using non jigged and completely accurate information can be very helpful to avoid account holds and cancels. Amazon does not collect your CVV from your credit card since they cannot store that in your account legally, so they do a much more strict fraud check in place of that.

If you use a jigged address that does not match up to a real address, it can be a red flag for them. In addition, if your account is placed on hold, you will need to submit a billing statement to Amazon in order for them to reinstate the account. If you’re using jigged info, you’ll have to modify it to match whatever you used for your amazon account.

Avoiding Fraudulent Characteristics

Account Overview

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Amazon requires accounts for all purchases made on their website. You will not be able to do a guest checkout without an account.

Number of Accounts Needed

While it may be tempting to sit down and create hundreds of Amazon accounts, it is not the best idea to. Amazon botting is more about quality vs quantity. You don’t want to make a bunch of accounts that will get flagged immediately after one electronic purchase.

It is best to use accounts that have some age and purchase history. This will factor into the “quality” aspect of your account. If you are purchasing items with increased level of fraud protection such as GPU’s and consoles, the account is at higher risk of getting placed on hold after a purchase.

This is why it is not recommended to make hundreds of accounts. It can be very expensive to maintain a high number of accounts through purchases for purchase history, Amazon Prime, etc. You want to build up a new account as much as possible so it appears more legitimate.

Five accounts to one address is a good number when starting off with Amazon. Amazon can link all accounts to one address, so it is not recommended to make a high number of accounts for the same address. They can link them together during the account review process once it is placed on hold, and having more accounts linked will make it more difficult to have them reinstated often.

Account Providers

There are providers that sell aged Amazon accounts with at least one purchase on it. I would recommend not using these however, as they are stolen accounts and not as likely to pass reinstatement when the account goes on hold at some point and needs to be verified. The information you use for a purchase will be different than the information that was used on the account prior to it being stolen, so this will be a major red flag there to Amazon.

Account Generation Tools

There are tools such as Kalevala, Jolt, SMKR, Gaden, etc, that you can use to generate accounts. However, it is not necessary to use them. You will want to note the proxy used to create the account however, as well as any profile information stored on the account for reinstatement purposes as needed.

Mobile Verification

Amazon does not require all accounts to have a phone number associated with them. However, depending on how you are making them, they may require you to input phone numbers at some point.

If you are prompted to add a phone number before creating an account, you will need to have a number that can receive SMS codes and then input that verification code. You can do this with personal phones or with SMS verification sites such as pvaverify or pvacodes. Note that Amazon restricts the amount of times a phone number can be used for account verification.

Once you add a phone number to an account, you will want to remove it afterwards so it does not prompt an SMS code to that phone number later on. This will be explained in the Making Amazon Account section.

Quality of Accounts

The quality of an Amazon account is very important for avoiding account holds and cancellations. The quality of an account depends on a few factors, such as the age, purchase history, legitimacy of information used, avoiding fraudulent characteristics, etc.

Age

The age of an Amazon account will play a role in Amazon’s fraud review process. An account that’s at least a few months old is less likely to get placed on hold after a high valued item is purchased such as a console or GPU.

When using new accounts, you are much more likely to have an account placed on hold for billing verification than an older account. Note that accounts that have been inactive for years and suddenly active with new billing info can raise red flags. While it’s tempting to purchase aged accounts for Amazon, keep in mind that opens up a whole new wave of potential fraud indicators to Amazon.

You can make new accounts and have orders stick on them, but this will require some purchase history ideally and avoiding other fraudulent characteristics.

Purchase History

Purchase history can help a lot to avoid Amazon placing a hold on your account after a successful checkout.

This can be as simple as making 1-2 purchases for household items such as soap, shampoo, etc. You will ideally want to use an account that has at least been used to purchase one or two items before using it to run for high valued electronics that Amazon has more strict fraud review processes in place for.

Older accounts of course with lots of purchase history will work very well, so long as you don’t have characteristics of fraud such as IP address jumping from different ones consistently.

Legitimacy of Info

Using non jigged and completely accurate information can be very helpful to avoid account holds and cancels. Amazon does not collect your CVV from your credit card since they cannot store that in your account legally, so they do a much more strict fraud check in place of that.

If you use a jigged address that does not match up to a real address, it can be a red flag for them. In addition, if your account is placed on hold, you will need to submit a billing statement to Amazon in order for them to reinstate the account. If you’re using jigged info, you’ll have to modify it to match whatever you used for your amazon account.

Avoiding Fraudulent Characteristics

It is a good idea to make your account seem as legitimate as possible. This means avoiding buying several high valued items on the same account within a short time period, logging into the account from multiple IP addresses, placing and cancelling orders immediately, and so on.

When making accounts, it’s a good idea to always keep track of the proxy that was used when creating it, and to stick with it when logging onto those accounts. Also, it is a good practice to not log onto an account manually immediately after hitting a high value item, as this has been known to trigger account holds in some cases.

You should also make note of the billing info such as name, address, phone number and card used to place that order should the account get placed on hold.

Making Accounts

Before making an account, I would recommend to download the BP Proxy Switcher or any Chrome extension that allows you to input a proxy into your browser. This way you can use that same IP when logging into your Amazon accounts through your bots.

Once you’ve applied your proxy, head to Amazon and begin the registration process.

Fill out the information as requested and then click create your Amazon account once done.

You may be prompted to go through a few additional security steps, depending on how many accounts you are making on one IP, the quality of your IP, if Amazon thinks you are a bot and abusing creating accounts, etc. This will be in the form of captchas and email/SMS verification codes.

If you are prompted to add a mobile number, you can use an SMS verification website, such as SMSPool, SMSPVA, PVAcodes, etc.

Select the Amazon option on the SMS verification website you have chosen. It will give you a phone number to use as shown below. You will want to take that phone number and input it into Amazon’s mobile number field. Amazon will then send a one time code to that phone number through SMS. The website you are using will then display that code once it has been received and read. Copy that code and then input it into Amazon’s field prompting for it.

Once you have created the account, the first thing you want to do is remove that phone number from the account. You won’t have access to it later on, so it’s important to remove it before Amazon wants to send a code to it in the future for any reason.

You’ll want to head to your account settings, and then Login & Security

Click Edit under the Mobile Phone Number field

Click Delete to remove that phone number from the account.

You will then want to set up your one click/default settings. First, you will need to add your address to your account. Head back to the account settings page and select your addresses

Click the Add Address button and then fill out your address information. Make sure you click make this my default address at the bottom once done.

Next, you’ll want to add your card. Go back to Account settings and select your payments

Finally, you’ll need to double check your 1-click settings to ensure it has been set up properly. Go back to account settings and then select the option for 1-click settings.

Click Add a credit or debit card

Fill in your card information and make sure to check the bot to set it as your default payment method.

Click the option in the top right to enable 1-click for this browser, and ensure there is a default address and card listed as shown below

Your Amazon account is now ready to go. Make sure you keep the name, address, phone number and card used stored in a spreadsheet or elsewhere for reference. You will need to know them when submitting your account for reinstatement after being placed on hold.

Steps After Making an Account

It is recommended to place at least one or two orders on the account before using it in your bots for purchasing high valued items. You can buy something that you’ll use around your house or anything you think you may need.

Additionally, it is helpful to add Amazon prime to the account as well. You can sign up for a free prime trial and use that when placing your test orders on the account. If you already have an account with Amazon Prime, you can also share Prime benefits with this account through Amazon Household.

Account Holds

After purchasing a high valued item, your account and order will undergo a fraud review by Amazon’s system. If the order is deemed as suspicious, they will place the account on hold and require you to submit billing information before they can reinstate it.

You will need to log onto the account and then submit the billing information requested. An example is shown below (picture is for Canada, but same information will be requested)

This is why it’s important to note the information you used to set up the account. You’ll want to provide this information now. It’s also important to make sure the card you used has billing information that matches the billing statement they will require you to submit. If you did not, you’ll have to use something like Adobe Acrobat/Microsoft Word to edit your billing statement to match what you used for the account and order.

Reinstating Accounts

While it may be difficult to reinstate accounts in some cases, it is very beneficial to run accounts that have been reinstated by Amazon. The chances of orders being cancelled and accounts placed on hold is much lower in comparison to running a brand new account that hasn’t been reinstated yet.

While some people may intentionally lock an account for them to go through the reinstatement process early on, it can be difficult in some cases to reinstate it so keep this in mind if you plan to do this.

Keep in mind, an account is not invincible after being reinstated and can very easily be placed on hold again after a successful checkout on a high value item. This is partly why it’s not always beneficial to force an account hold right away. You should still take good precautions when using them, such as keeping login IP the same, not making too many expensive purchases on the same account within a short period of time, etc.

The following guide below is a method to reinstate accounts.

Account Reinstatement

Account Flags - Captchas and Soft Flags (Dogs)

Amazon will flag either an IP address or an account temporarily for showing too much abusive behavior on their site.

Captchas

Amazon does not utilize captcha services such as reCAPTCHA or hCAPTCHA for their site. They instead use a simpler form of it where you simply need to type in the letters prompted on the screen as shown below.

Typically you will get prompted for a captcha when running too low of a delay or reusing the same proxy too many times for various activities on their site such as spamming atc or place order buttons. This is why it is important to restrict the number of times your bot will attempt to cart or checkout in task settings if it’s available to you or not automatically determined in bot.

Currently, most Amazon bots do not have a way to solve this captcha. This means that you will almost always have to give that IP address a break for a few hours such as overnight before you can use it again to run your bots for monitoring and checkout.

Soft Flags (Dogs)

Dogs on Amazon refer to a temporary soft flag on your account when you try to access account settings or checkout

When you get this on your account, this means your account won’t be able to be used in your bots until it clears. Similar to a captcha on an IP, this will take a few hours to clear, so it’s best to not try to use that account for a while such as not running it overnight.

To avoid the chances of this happening, try not to run too many tasks on a singular account. This will typically lead to an account softban faster. You also need to restrict the number of times your task attempts to cart and/or checkout. It’s best to limit cart and checkout attempts to 5-10 times if possible to help avoid this. If you find you still get flagged, lower it to 5 and it should not be an issue. Some bots will automatically set this for you, but if it doesn’t, you’ll want to ensure it is not spamming those buttons.