Social Engineering Tactics Used In Mobile Money Theft In Tanzania

ABSTRACT Social engineering is one of the most common attacking vectors in mobile money transactions. With the increasing rate of mobile money use, it has directly increased the number of social engineering incidents in mobile money services. It is therefore important to evolve a framework for detecting malicious and phishing messages. This could help to reduce threats posed by mobile phone criminals. As of now, some customers and agents have already lost thousands of shillings due to social engineering attacks. This study, investigated the common social engineering techniques used by cybercr…