possible scam?

I’ve deactivated my stores in the pass few days because I need some time to re-plan things out. In this moment there are lots of emails sent to me, majority of them are either ‘offering business service’ or ‘customer asking is a certain item is available’ while I have nothing selling. The few that stand out the most are from “Shopify”, so I’m here to ask if this is legit or not, so I can close my store and replan peacefully.

Hi @UncleRanger

Yeah, that is a scam. You get a lot of spam too I guess. Plus you may get offers from “experts” that will increase sales to $40K a month.

Use common sense and block and delete all those emails.

And how do you identify if it is a Shopify legit email? Well check

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/privacy-and-security/account-security/phishing#recognizing-legiti…

“Shopify will only send emails from official domains such as @shopify.com, @email.shopify.com, @em.shopify.com, and @shopify-billpay.melio.com. Emails from public email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Apple mail, or Hotmail aren’t from Shopify and should be treated as potential phishing attempts.”

If you search here or just Google you will find hundreds of topics with similar emails, like trying to pay for a free theme and so on.

Do not fall for urgency in the email subject, research a bit, look here on Google, and do not click any link in those emails. And do not reply back either.

Good luck and stay safe.