Reporting Fraud? (someone used my email on shopify maliciously)

Topic summary

A user reports their email was used to create a Shopify store (“My Store77”) without consent, and they’re receiving account/payment notifications. One included a chargeback decision stating £99.99 would be returned, indicating bank-initiated dispute activity tied to the unauthorized store.

Support access and reporting:

  • Shopify staff direct the user to the Help Centre for secure investigation.
  • If unable to log in or without an account, select “I still need help” in the Help Centre to view contact options beyond the bot.
  • Another participant says the bot doesn’t offer a reporting path and asks how to reach human support, reinforcing access difficulties.

Key details:

  • Evidence provided via a pasted notification (chargeback outcome) rather than a full screenshot.
  • “Chargeback” refers to a reversal of a card transaction decided by the customer’s bank.

Status: No resolution yet. Next step is to contact Shopify Support through the Help Centre using the “I still need help” route for a direct investigation.

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

I never signed up to shopify (before today, to post this message) but someone used my email address to create a store “My Store77”

I am still receiving updates on the activity and i recently received the following:

The customer’s bank reviewed the chargeback response and has sided with you. £99.99 will be returned to you in your next payout.

I am trying to contact shopify to alert them to this, and I cannot find any direct (non-bot) way of communicating with them

can someone help ? thanks in advance

Hi there, @SD38 !

Thanks for letting us know about this!

In order to look into this further with you, we would need to ask you to reach out via our Help Centre here where we’ll be able to investigate this securely for you.

If you need to contact support but are unable to log in (or do not have an account) you can select ‘I still need help’ when using the Help Centre in order to access your options for contacting support.

I look forward to getting this checked out on your behalf!

How can you report this? the bot doesnt give me that option. How do we contact support?