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===Badir Brothers=== Brothers Ramy, Muzher, and Shadde Badir—all of whom were blind from birth—managed to set up an extensive phone and computer fraud scheme in [[Israel]] in the 1990s using social engineering, voice impersonation, and [[Refreshable braille display|Braille-display computers]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/phreaks_pr.html|title=Wired 12.02: Three Blind Phreaks|date=14 June 1999|magazine=Wired|access-date=11 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://library.nic.in/e-journalNew/Dataquest/Archives/DQNov2012-Oct13/dq_i1_feb13/dq_i1_feb13/64%20-%20Social%20Engineering%20A%20Young%20Hacker's%20Tale.pdf|title=Social Engineering A Young Hacker's Tale.|date=15 February 2013|access-date=13 January 2020|magazine=DATAQUEST}}</ref>
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