In this work, we computationally investigate RET initiated by emergent optical resonances, herein called scattering mediated absorption (SMA) resonances, in composite nanoparticles comprised of a large (100s of nm) dielectric nanosphere decorated on the surface with small-diameter (< 10 nm) metal nanospheres. These composite nanoparticles (CNPs) are illustrated schematically in Figure . SMA has been discussed in several different experimentally-realized and theoretical platforms involving dielectric/metal and dielectric/semiconductor CNPs. The large dielectric bead of the CNPs can support a variety of optical scattering resonances (e.g. whispering gallery modes) that arise from the boundaries placed upon the light field by the geometry and dielectric contrast associated with the bead and its interface with the surrounding. Whispering gallery mode resonances in particular concentrate optical energy near the surface of the bead and have evanescent tails that penetrate into the surrounding medium. Metal nanoparticles at or near the surface of the bead can be excited by these evanescent fields which leads to strong absorption of the scattered light, hence the term scattering mediated absorption. A key feature of CNPs that support SMA is that their absorption spectra mimics the resonance position, intensity, and linewidths of the scattering spectra of the dielectric bead component. Because these SMA absorption peaks are associated with strong charge density oscillations on the metal sites themselves, we propose that SMA resonances may show promise for efficient RET with a particularly promising feature being that the magnitude and frequency of their transition dipoles, as well as their resonance lifetimes, can be controlled via the geometry of the underlying dielectric nanostructure. Because SMA relies upon the scattering resonances in the dielectric component, not on the intrinsic resonant properties of the metal components, CNPs offer considerable versatility in designing RET donors that goes beyond that of purely plasmonic donors. Further, this flexibility creates opportunities to select metal components based on other important considerations like favorable chemistry with RET acceptors, stability, earth abundance, biocompatibility, etc.