Dafyd Jones
🗓 Date: Tues, 24th February
⏲ Time: 4 pm EST
🏳 Location: Zoom
MODERATOR
Director, Technology & Innovation, MRC
Dennis Weiss
HOST/SPEAKER
CEO, IPQS
Alexandra Valencia
SPEAKER
Former DEA Intel Analyst
Join our discussion covering:
- The emergence and increased use of virtual and tokenized card numbers to facilitate high-value transactions and refund abuse.
- The continued rise of account takeovers and bot-driven attacks across login and checkout flows.
- Growing exposure to SMS, and phone-based fraud, including OTP abuse, SMS pumping, and call-based verification scams.
- IP reputation and network level risk signals, why VPNs, residential proxies, and abusive networks remain critical to fraud detection.
- How merchants can reduce fraud without introducing unnecessary friction.
Sign up to receive a complimentary bottle of Sotol Culebra or coffee beans from Sabbath Coffee and kick off the happy hour with a mixology lesson before diving into real fraud-fighting stories.
The session will feature insights from Alexandra Valencia, former DEA Intelligence Analyst, who will share perspectives from intelligence analysis, emerging crypto and gaming ecosystems, and human behavior to explain why these attacks succeed.
Hosted by Dennis Weiss, CEO of IPQS, and moderated by Dafyd Jones, Director of Technology & Innovation at the Merchant Risk Council (MRC), this session blends practical fraud intelligence with an open, community-driven discussion.
Chatham House Rules
To foster an open discussion, we have a policy that the details shared during the event remain confidential. This allows participants to openly share stories of real-life fraud attacks with the group.
Custom Cocktails
Enjoy a complimentary bottle of liquor or coffee beans delivered to your door for the virtual happy hour. Provide your address during registration to participate.
Community Vibes
Spirited Conversations is an ongoing interactive series uniting the fraud-fighting community , all from the comfort of your home or office.
ABOUT YOUR HOSTS
IPQS is a trusted platform to combat fraud in all its forms. Our obsession with fresh and untainted data from proprietary sources is transforming the efficacy of fraud prevention, bot detection, and account security for 5,000+ businesses globally. For more information visit www.ipqs.com.
