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I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that there’s been an increase in internet credit card fraud lately in Lebanon. One of them told me there’s a local payment gateway that’s being hacked consistently and that is being used by a considerable number of Lebanese websites.
I could not find any articles related to that matter, but there aren’t that many payment gateways used by Lebanese websites to my knowledge. The Lebanese websites I’ve used to buy stuff at least once and never had a problem with are playlebanon.com (Lotto website), Wise & Cyberia websites, MTC website and livingsocial.com.
There’s a guy on Elmazad offering services that include hacking into people’s accounts in Lebanon. Maybe his softwares are working after all?
there’s also makhsoom which redirects to bank audi.. i’ve used it several times and so far nothing hacked..
btw i don’t understand why people dont pay the extra 1$/month fee to activate the SMS notification feature.. once, my cc was scammed (unrelated matter).. i called customer service, the charge was declined and my cc was replaced..
i don’t see cc fraud as a big issue for us consumers as it can be easily stopped.