Mr Price Group experienced mounting pressure to safeguard the company against the rising and evolving threat of email impersonation. While the enterprise had a Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) record, the policy was set to p=none (monitoring), allowing them to view email traffic, but not fully defend against cyberthreats, as opposed to a DMARC reject policy.
Due to the high volume of transactional and marketing emails sent from Mr Price Group, cybercriminals were constantly targeting the brand, resulting in continuous monitoring and significant tweaking of their policy rules to protect against potential credential harvesting and payment scams.
Mr Price Group is a retail and e-commerce corporation specializing in fashion, homeware, sportswear, mobile, and financial services. The group operates hundreds of stores across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Zambia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Ghana, with a recent acquisition in Germany.
Mr Price Group, initially founded in 1985, now includes nationally known brands such as Power Fashion, Milady’s, Sheet Street, and Yuppiechef. Today, the organization serves millions of customers both in-store and online.
South African customers
Employees
Strongest South African brand
As threats evolved globally and Mr Price Group expanded its digital footprint, securing its email environment became more challenging. Multiple brands, domains, and external platforms across different countries were generating large volumes of legitimate traffic. The growth and popularity of the group sparked interest in the threat actor community, resulting in numerous spoofing and email impersonation attempts.
This created several challenges:
Mr Price Group needed a solution that would provide:
“The implementation of Sendmarc’s DMARC solution was a game-changer, giving us the visibility and control needed to move swiftly to enforcement, blocking volumes of malicious phishing and spoofing emails that threatened our brand reputation and operations.”
– Kim Sim, Chief Information Officer
Retail and e-commerce brands rely on Sendmarc’s DMARC solution to defend against email impersonation, safeguard customer data, and maintain trust. Learn more about how DMARC protects the retail and e-commerce sector.