Amazon Account Gets Suspended Right After Sign-Up? Here’s What’s Actually Happening

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By ave7LIFT

You did everything “right”—LLC formed, bank account opened, Seller Central registration complete… and then Amazon drops the hammer: “Your account has been deactivated” under Section 3. If this happened before you listed or sold anything, the uncomfortable truth is: you’re not dealing with a performance issue. You’re stuck in Amazon’s registration-stage vetting trap, where bots look for risk signals, not “intent.”
In other words: Amazon isn’t saying you’re guilty. It’s saying it can’t confidently verify you—so it treats you like a threat.

What typically triggers a new-account Section 3 suspension?
As explained in more detail on ave7LIFT, these deactivations usually come from one (or more) of these “inputs” failing automated checks:

• Identity mismatches: “Mike Smith” in Seller Central vs. “Michael A. Smith” on a statement. To a bot, that’s not the same person.

• Charge method problems: debit/prepaid cards, fintech/virtual cards, or billing addresses that don’t match exactly.

• Address red flags: registered agent addresses, virtual offices, PO boxes, or CMRA locations (UPS Store-style addresses).

• Login/IP signals: VPNs, data-center IPs, public Wi-Fi, sudden country-to-country logins.

• Document upload errors: screenshots, cropped scans, missing pages, low-res files—anything that looks “edited.”

• Tax timing issues: brand-new EINs can fail validation if the IRS database hasn’t updated yet.

• Global selling dominoes: accidentally creating multiple marketplace accounts (UK/JP) can trigger a chain reaction.

The mistake that gets sellers permanently stuck
The fastest way to make this worse is to appeal blindly or “bulk change” everything at once. Registration suspensions are solved with single-variable precision: identify the exact failure, correct only that, and revalidate.
A practical diagnostic path looks like:

• Review the signals (ID, card, address, IP, docs)

• Isolate the mismatch

• Make a clean correction (no document “editing”)

• Confirm verification

• Keep monitoring so the trigger doesn’t repeat

If you’re asked for a video verification call (SIV)
Treat it like a bank KYC interview: original documents on desk, good lighting, stable webcam, no coaching, no reading off-screen.

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