Allegation of widespread scams on Shopify, with accusations that the company profits and lacks integrity.
The poster cites a Trustpilot rating of 1.3/5 (Trustpilot is a consumer review platform) as evidence and claims “thousands” are scammed daily, though no independent data is provided.
In a recent support interaction, the user reports Shopify said they have no control over third‑party actions and can’t intervene, while the user alleges repeated credit‑card charges continue.
The platform is accused of having features that facilitate scamming, and the user rejects support’s explanation as “ridiculous” and “untrue.”
A call is made for government crackdowns on companies enabling scams.
No concrete actions, remedies, or official responses are documented in the thread, and no opposing viewpoints appear.
Status: unresolved and highly critical, with claims based on personal experience and external reviews rather than verified findings.
Summarized with AI on December 28.
AI used: gpt-5.
Because they profit from it? Because they have no integrity? Lets face it, both points are true.
The excuses I’ve just received from their support are ridiculous. I checked their reviews on trust pilot and they have 1.3/5 stars (note that 1 is the lowest score). Everyday thousands of people get scammed on their platform, they even have features setup to enable the scamming. What do they do about it if you complain? Claim that there is nothing they can do, as they charge your credit card over and over. It’s like someone stood there shooting a gun, saying “It’s not my fault I’m loading the bullets and pulling the trigger, nothing I can do about that.”
They claim they have no control or access to the scam platform they run. Utterly ridiculous statement, and of course, completely untrue.
Governments need to have a crackdown on these companies.
I am not saying that Shopify does not have its flows, but, for example just search the forum for posts like “store is closed” to get a bit of opposite view.
And then – mangling and twisting company name does not suit any reasonable discussion.
But we have laws, why does the government let so many crimes run on their system?
Don’t be a cliche replaceable by a bot.
Your screaming into the toilet, at least search first to add your voice to big threads of existing complaints in the longshot vain hope of collective bargaining, and to respect the rules and others time. https://community.shopify.com/search?q=scam
Mirror mirror: Do you think your the first, how effective do you think all the others that came before were.
What can you actually do to change that inevitable conclusion instead of hoping pounding out text will make you feel better but not actually fix anything at all.
Bad take , intramural ~= internal ~= community ~= local ; and veeerery loosely meaning retail/brick-and-mortar as well in some sentiments.
Which make the review valid if a bit of a confusing read.
which is exactly what someone employed by scamify would do… proving my point yet again.
But of course, you’ll claim you attack anyone who criticises scamify, and help users that get stuck with simple usage issues… out of the goodness of your heart.
If only scamify would invest as much effort into preventing fraud on their platform, rather than faking support in their forums.
