The defining theme of this run is **the weaponisation of genuine, real-world institutional change** — scammers are no longer inventing pretexts, they are reading the news and parasitically attaching their lures to true events. Three of this run's five published deep-dives ex...

The dominant pattern across May 2026 European scam intelligence is the industrialisation and layering of SCA-bypass techniques: criminals are no longer just harvesting card data, they are pairing that harvest with synchronous human callback or second-page flows that turn a sto...