Scammer transactions and analytics

[PaulNewton]

See main botting gripe threads

Shopify Bot Exploit – Add-to-Cart Abuse Is Corrupting Analytics & Shopify Refuses to Act at Platform

For anyone dealing with this have you established if the bots are : actually interacting with the page, triggering analytics events etc loading the frontend, but using the ajax api to actually interact with the cart or possibly newer abusing the new system for the MCP storefront api which also has cart functionality etc ( lets LLMs like chatgpt access store data on the frontend) Mimics common browser user agents and request headers, appearing identical to real users> - Reaches storefront pa…

Tons of bots creating and abandoning carts

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a massive influx of bots with similar names and addresses adding low price products to carts and then abandoning them. I’ve spoken with Shopify support regarding this issue and all they could tell me was to “install bot protection apps” and to turn on re-captcha. Neither has worked. Almost all the emails are a name with three numbers after (ex. allen690@yahoo.com) and the address is typically empty or is: House Number 43, Gray Colony Bellevue Washington 98006 …

Or any of the other ones with search to avoid going it alone Search results for 'bots' - Shopify Community
Search results for 'botting' - Shopify Community
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