Archive - The Fraud Brief

Shopify Fraud Filter: Rules vs. AI Fraud Detection

How Shopify’s current fraud tools work, what replaced the original Fraud Filter app, and where merchant-defined rules differ from contextual fraud…

Aug 8 • d'Artagnan Osborne

July 2026

The AI Fraud Speed Gap

Fraud AI can score in milliseconds. Learning from a new attack may still take days or weeks.

Jul 15 • d'Artagnan Osborne

June 2026

Fraud Has Moved Beyond the Order

Shopify merchants are seeing the next wave of ecommerce fraud show up before checkout, after delivery, and inside the workflows traditional fraud tools…

Jun 24 • d'Artagnan Osborne

May 2026

What Has to Be True for Agentic Payments to Work

Faster authorization is only part of the story. The real opportunity is programmable trust.

May 15 • d'Artagnan Osborne

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