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## Know Your Super Bowl: How Fraud Teams Can Prepare for Peak Payment Volume Spikes

DevFeed: [Know Your Super Bowl: How Fraud Teams Can Prepare for Peak Payment Volume Spikes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/know-your-super-bowl-how-fraud-teams-can-prepare-for-peak-payment-volume-spikes-20428.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://sift.com/blog/how-fraud-teams-can-prepare-for-peak-payment-volume/>)

Author: Sift Trust and Safety Team

Published: 2026-09-02T16:15:14Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Sift Science](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sift-science.md>)

Topics: [Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy-and-abuse-prevention.md>), [Finance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/finance.md>)

Tags: [agentic-commerce-fraud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-commerce-fraud.md>), [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [digital-trust-safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-trust-safety.md>), [fraud-prevention](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fraud-prevention.md>), [fraud-prevention-planning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fraud-prevention-planning.md>), [incident-response-plan](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response-plan.md>), [payment-fraud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment-fraud.md>), [payment-volume-spikes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment-volume-spikes.md>), [peak-payment-volume](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/peak-payment-volume.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [seasonal-fraud-trends](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/seasonal-fraud-trends.md>), [shared-payment-credentials](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shared-payment-credentials.md>)

### AI overview

The article explains how fraud teams can prepare for predictable and unexpected payment volume spikes. It recommends identifying business-specific peak periods, coordinating forecasts and risk tolerance in advance, and tightly controlling fraud-rule changes around high-volume events.

### Source excerpt

Every business has a Super Bowl. It just isn't always the Super Bowl. For one company, it might be Black Friday. For another, Valentine's Day. For others, the biggest payment spike of the year comes from a product launch, ticket release, or viral moment nobody saw coming. That was the premise of a recent Merchant [...] The post Know Your Super Bowl: How Fraud Teams Can Prepare for Peak Payment Volume Spikes appeared first on Sift.