I am getting many abandoned checkouts from different “people”, all having different and convincing names, however every single email is: mail##@protonmail.com, where ## is some combination of two numbers, eg: mail01@protonmail.com . Does anyone else experience this? Is there a way to prevent these f…

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Same thing here. A lot of fake abandoned check-outs. All have similar profiles. The fake customers place hundreds of items into their cart, resulting in hundreds or thousands of dollars at check-out. Also, most email addresses come from free gmail accounts. We have spam protection on account creatio…

I don’t think Shopify plans to do anything. I installed Shop Protector and uninstalled it a couple of hours later. The Shop Protector app did not help in my case. I have over 500 fake abandoned orders created since last night, all using the name ramiro ramiro with IP address 192.241.73.162 and ramir…

Yeah the problem is you would likely need to block the traffic before they even access our sites, something I believe only shopify are able to do and no app could resolve. What I’m wondering is if google are responsible for a lot of the fake checkouts. My site have normally had about one fake aband…

The Google bot I believe I’ve already identified. It always goes by John Smith, fakexxxx@fakemail.com . It’s still unbelievable that Google bot would create 50+ fake orders. Good or bad, it messes with statistics. I understand the crawling aspect, but creating fake abandoned checkouts? Why? The oth…

I installed Blockify - IP Block app and it works fantastic!

Thanks!! At last a suggestion on how to get rid of this extremely annoying thing. Will try and post here how it works.

Hello how did you use the app to avoid this situation

I wish Shopify should add a way to stop certain domains. I hear that some of the third party apps devs are making the fake abandomed orders just to sell their apps. I dont know if it is true but it kind of makes sense.

How can I prevent fake abandoned checkouts from multiple email addresses?

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How can I prevent fake abandoned checkouts from multiple email addresses?

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