I think Shopify payments on my site is being used to screen credit cards. There are many different email addresses being used the all use the same fake name / address and are all for the same product. However each failed / abandoned checkout (about 47 in the last 24 hours) is trying to charge a dif…

[image] Fraudulent orders won't stop Payments + Shipping & Fulfilment Hi Everyone, [reposting here from another thread on the same topic] Maybe already answered here, but we did build a good (FREE) process to prevent these orders from being processed [ i.e. P…

Thanks that will help if I encounter other fraud issues. In my case I only sell physical products and the credit card is being denied / no payment is captured. I am pretty sure this means I am not being charged any fees. It is more of an annoyance since it fills the abandoned checkouts section. I …

If you can afford it, I would password protect the site for a few days so they move on. There’s no real action Shopify will do (that we’ve seen so far), but you can always file a report to https://www.ic3.gov/

Thanks again. My primary concern is fees and as long as I am not being charged for the declines and Shopify / the gateway is eating the cost I guess I shouldn’t worry about it :woman_shrugging: (About 10 years ago I had a similar issue with Chase Paymentech and 3dcart and Chase refunded several th…

It’s a common problem. This is how I combat it. [image] Scammer transactions and analytics Shopify Discussion Scammers use my Shopify checkout to test their credit card numbers. Dozens per day. My record was over 5,000 in 15 hours. And yet despite that, I see n…

I guess I was lucky to not to run into this issue for the first 7 months. I’m trying the Cart Lock app and that seems like it can deter it somewhat until the person running the bot changes something that breaks the rule (or perhaps they will just move on to another Shopify store that doesn’t anythin…

I am using a modified flow setup similar to @Maximus3 but instead of Check If node testing for addresses, I use a Run Code node. Some might argue that a Run Code node is more complicated, but I found updating the addresses easier. When you get to a dozen or more addresses, a Check If node gets a lit…

This may need to further check with credit card provider, rather than Shopify end. But you can always choose to report these fraud behaviours to Shopify end.

Shopify is the credit card provider so there isn’t a seperate provider to report it to. As for reporting it to shopify how do I do that? The help bot doesn’t seem to understand and wont give me a way to contact a human.

My site is being used to screen credit cards via Shopify Payments / How do I report it and am I charged for credit card declines?

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My site is being used to screen credit cards via Shopify Payments / How do I report it and am I charged for credit card declines?

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