Holiday Hangover: How To Stop Post-Holiday Fraud Before It Starts, by Dodgeball (Now Spreedly)
Summary
The holiday rush may be over-but for fraudsters, the real opportunity is just beginning.
Each January brings a spike in refund abuse, return scams, loyalty fraud, and synthetic identity attacks-fueled by looser policies, overworked teams, and increasingly sophisticated bad actors. And with the rise of agentic AI, these schemes are becoming harder to detect-and faster to scale.
In this session, we'll explore how merchants can stay one step ahead by combining fraud prevention and payments orchestration into a unified, intelligent defense. And how orchestration platforms can help merchants dynamically respond to fraud signals, improve approval rates, and reduce post-holiday losses without adding friction to the customer experience.
Learning Objectives
- The top fraud and abuse trends to watch in January 2026
- Why disconnected fraud and payment systems create blind spots
- How AI and orchestration can enable smarter, faster decisioning
- Tactics to reduce manual review, false declines, and post-peak revenue loss
What a modern, orchestrated defense strategy should look like We'll also briefly introduce Spreedly's recent acquisition of Dodgeball, and why it signals a broader market shift toward converging fraud and payments to protect merchant revenue year-round.
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