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by asdadsdad 911 days ago
cool project. You might have notice, but there's a non-trivial amount of fraud on shopify (fake shops, info stealers, etc). Might be interesting to look at that dataset and explore a bit =) it's quite fascinating
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pencildiver 911 days ago
I've definitely noticed that already. Any advice on how to spot that?

Another challenge is that there are products sold on the original site and third-party marketplaces, both of which could sell on Shopify. So need to find a way to automatically detect the type of store.

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asdadsdad 910 days ago
you might check this for inspiration (https://seguranca-informatica.pt/shopping-trap-the-online-st...).

I used to have a huge IOC collection, but now stopped tracking them.

things like HTML markup, pricing patterns, IPs might inform on specific clusters of fraudsters.

I don't think Shopify cares tbh

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pencildiver 910 days ago
Super helpful, thank you.
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smcin 911 days ago
What are the telltales, for spotting those?

And how aggressively does Shopify verify/police them?

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