Preparation is key for a stress-free festive season
Everyone wants to switch off and relax over the holidays. But for businesses, the increased risk of fraud means you must stay vigilant.
Get all of the tools to help your business protect it’s customers during the festive season.
Understand the current fraud landscape, and the most common fraud types encountered at this time of the year.
Get a head start by learning about the high growth frauds that we think will dominate 2026.
Fraud doesn’t take holidays, but with our festive report – you can!
In this report, we cover:
The eight frauds of Christmas
As the festive season hits full volume, fraudsters cue up their ‘festive favourites’
Fraud trends of 2025
We review the last year in fraud, providing a glance of the fraud types encountered, and the impact it has had on the UK economy
A look into the future
We review the 3 high growth frauds that are likely to dominate the upcoming festive season, and remain into 2026
A sneak peek into:
Unwrapping Fraud: Helping you to prepare for the festive season ahead
Retail fraud during the holidays
For some retailers, dealing with fraud attempts is a daily activity. But during the holidays, the frequency of these attempts can skyrocket. Here are some of the main tactics fraudsters use:
- Refund and return abuse (from wardrobing, bricking and de-shopping to ‘item not received’ claims).
- Friendly fraud and chargebacks after legitimate deliveries.
- Promo/code abuse using stacking, reselling or coupon bots.
- Account takeover driving high-value orders and last-minute address changes.
- Delivery disputes that are used to force refunds.
- Facility takeover fraud using stolen credentials, bots, spoofed retail sites and delivery smishing campaigns to harvest login details and payment data.
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