Category: 📲 Account Management | Section: Suspicious activity on my account | Contact reason: Suspicious activity on my account
Summary — read this first
What this article covers: Suspicious activity on my account requests from members. 2 use cases: No flag or "Suspected ATO" flag - Account activated; ↗ Member's account is flagged - Account deactivated.
Topics inside: Account name changed to "Account not approved" · Suspicious activity on my account.
Pick your use case:
- No flag or "Suspected ATO" flag - Account activated (Suspicious activity on my account) — Escalate the ticket to the Fraud team to ask them if they confirm the account takeover (ATO) or not with the following information
- ↗ Member's account is flagged - Account deactivated (Suspicious activity on my account) — Continue in another article: 🚨 Fraud › Account closure › Why was my account deactivated?
| Escalation team(s) | Fraud |
| Ticket status | On-hold → Solved |
| Key system paths | C360 > Basic info > Status |
| Macros | — |
Search keywords: account, macro_id:22578071191313, not approved
Account name changed to "Account not approved"
Context: User contacts saying that their account name has been changed to “Account not approved” Do NOT escalate. The account name has been changed by Curation team due to a discrepancy in the account information (example: user used a single letter as his name, they are called "A") This is because they suspect a fraudulent activity (Troll, scam, etc)
First steps (all cases)
🎯 Process
- Set contact reason to Suspicious activity on my account
- Explain to the customer that our teams flagged this account as suspicious and this account is now deactivated
- Please follow this process
Suspicious activity on my account
Context: When a user claims that their Vestiaire Collective account has been compromised and changes have been made to their account without their consent (e.g. account details changed, orders created, items listed…). Account takeover reports may look like the following: • I see abnormal behaviour under my account • Items have been sold and get paid details had been modified • I didn’t purchase anything on VC but I…
First steps (all cases)
🎯 Process
- Set contact reason to Suspicious activity on my account
- Please check if there is any ‘ATO’ flag on the member’s account Go to C360 > Basic info > Status
- Escalate the ticket to the Fraud team to ask them if they confirm the account takeover (ATO) or not with the following information:
- User Account ID number (this refers to the account number, NOT identity documents of the user)
- Information (if any) changed on the account
- Order IDs of orders made on the account (if applicable)
- Set ticket status to On-hold
1. No flag or "Suspected ATO" flag - Account activated
🎯 Process
- Escalate the ticket to the Fraud team to ask them if they confirm the account takeover (ATO) or not with the following information:
- User Account ID number (this refers to the account number, NOT identity documents of the user)
- Information (if any) changed on the account
- Order IDs of orders made on the account (if applicable)
- Set ticket status to On-hold
Sub-cases
Fraud confirms the ATO
🎯 Process
- Please kindly invite the member to follow these steps:
- Reset their email address password
- Reset their Vestiaire Account password thanks to the email we have sent her/him
- Once these steps done, please come back to Fraud so they can reactivate the account
- Confirm to the member their account is now safe and reactivated
- Solve the ticket
Items have been sold and get paid details modified following an ATO
🎯 Process: Advise the customer to promptly contact the authorities and file an official report. Additionally, recommend reaching out to their bank or payment provider to secure accounts and prevent further unauthorized activity. Inform the customer that unfortunately we are unable to provide reimbursement for these transactions.
Fraud states there is no ATO
🎯 Process
- Please inform the member that our teams did not see any suspicious activity in their account
- You can invite the member to reset proactively their VC account’s password to secure their account
- Solve the ticket
2. ↗ Member's account is flagged - Account deactivated
→ Continue in another article: 🚨 Fraud › Account closure › Why was my account deactivated?.