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2. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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   Get live expert help with your AOL needs—from email and passwords, technical questions, mobile email and more. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails AOL Mail is focused on keeping you safe while you use the best mail product on the web.

3. 2-Step Verification with a Security Key - AOL Help

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   Get live expert help with your AOL needs—from email and passwords, technical questions, mobile email and more. 2-Step Verification with a Security Key A security key is a physical device that gets uniquely associated with your AOL account after you enable it.

4. Use AOL Certified Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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   When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details. When you get a message that seems to be from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Official Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.

5. Email-address harvesting - Wikipedia

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   The simplest method involves spammers purchasing or trading lists of email addresses from other spammers.. Another common method is the use of special software known as "harvesting bots" or "harvesters", which uses spider Web pages, postings on Usenet, mailing list archives, internet forums and other online sources to obtain email addresses from public data.

6. Email authentication - Wikipedia

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   In the early 1980s, when Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) was designed, it provided for no real verification of sending user or system. This was not a problem while email systems were run by trusted corporations and universities, but since the commercialization of the Internet in the early 1990s, spam, phishing, and other crimes have been found to increasingly involve email.

7. Account verification - Wikipedia

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   An email account is often required to create an account. During this process, a confirmation hyperlink is sent in an email message to an email address specified by a person. The email recipient is instructed in the email message to navigate to the provided confirmation hyperlink if and only if they are the person creating an account.