<prompt> Human: I understand that the person may not actually live there, but its an address they must go to in order to receive the stolen merchandise. It doesnt seem like something that should be easy to get away with.I didnt have my cc info stolen, but I have a shopify website that received a bogus order like this. It just makes me angry that there is a name and address in front of me and all that happens is the transaction gets reversed and the scammer gets away. I would just sleep better knowing there was at least a follow up to investigate it. This was the best subreddit I could think to ask this question.  <response>: I work in fraud prevention in ecommerce. Theyre often sent to abandoned houses. Not all ecommerce platforms all equal - To combat fraud, your fraud team at Shopify should have some algorithms that calculate the likelihood is of fraud based on potentially thousands of inputs, including previous addresses that have been associated with fraud. If the models suggest fraud, it will get investigated by a human and is either passed or failed. The human will even do things like look at google maps street view to see if the house looks legit, or the buyers facebook profile to see how legit they feel as well.Unless its a huge order they do not go try to get that back. Instead, what they do is bake the results back into their models so the next time a very similar case pops up they know its fraud. 