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Holiday Hangover: How To Stop Post-Holiday Fraud Before It Starts

Fraud
Payments
Spreedly
Jan 07, 2026
Webinars

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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