Is this email spam or legit?

Topic summary

Main issue: A merchant reports receiving an email stating customers had payment issues and couldn’t complete purchases. The email asks the merchant to reply confirming awareness so the sender can share details and perform a “full check.”

Key details:

  • Sender address: info@shopifycomplianceteam.org.
  • Content claims: customer payment failures; request for confirmation to proceed with an investigation.
  • Evidence: a screenshot of the email is attached.

Request/outcome:

  • The merchant is asking whether the message is legitimate or spam/phishing.
  • No verification, resolutions, or official guidance have been provided in the thread so far.

Status: Discussion is open with no confirmed answer.

Context: Category is Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment, tagged as troubleshooting.

Summarized with AI on January 9. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi, I received an email to notify me, that customers reported payment issues and could not complete their purchase. It came from this email address. info@shopifycomplianceteam.org

I’m asked to answer and confirm if I am aware of that problem so they could give me all the details and run a full check. Is this legit?

Hey @Gabriele234! The email send to you is not from Shopify. It’s a spam email. Shopify always send the email via shopify.com

In your case, it’s a random domain which is why it’s the spam email.

@Gabriele234 report the email to your email provider.

ALWAYS contact shopify support DIRECTLY when unsure of legitimacy.
Do NOT leave up to random people opinion on the internet as that too can be a threat vector.
https://help.shopify.com/