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Social engineering

The use of social engineering to bypass controls and exploit human psychology and telephony weaknesses.

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Jan 19, 2026
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What tactics do scammers use when impersonating Sheikh Hamdan on social media?

Scammers impersonating Sheikh Hamdan exploit his public profile by creating fake social accounts that reuse his name and photos to offer too-good-to-be-true giveaways, investments and personal contact...

Jan 23, 2026

What security measures (tokenization, EMV, MFA) reduced card fraud after 2020 and where are current vulnerabilities in 2025?

, , and combined with network-level controls and merchant liability shifts materially reduced traditional cloning and large-scale magnetic-stripe fraud after 2020, while fraud has rebounded into card-...

Jan 6, 2026

What legal penalties exist for participating in Non-VBV credit card fraud?

Non‑VBV (non‑Verified‑by‑Visa) card transactions are a technical description of payments that skip 3D Secure authentication, but using non‑VBV cards in fraudulent schemes is prosecuted under the same ...

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