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2. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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   Caller ID spoofing. Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. This can lead to a display showing a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed.

3. Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 - Wikipedia

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   The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 is an Act of the United States Congress that generally makes it illegal to use false Caller ID information for a call with the intent to defraud or scam a called party. The Act makes exceptions for certain law-enforcement purposes. Callers are also still allowed to preserve their anonymity by choosing to block ...

4. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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   In addition, the company gives customers free Caller ID and one free second number called “PROXY” that you can give out like your junk email address to help keep your private number private ...

5. What You Need to Know About Spam Calls and 7 Ways to ... - AOL

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   With a whole host of Scam Shield safeguards, EVERY T-Mobile customer — T-Mobile, Sprint, Metro by T-Mobile and even T-Mobile LineLink home phone customers — will get free scam ID and blocking. 2.

6. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers. The good news is that scam callers will often show up ...

7. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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   Phone fraud. Phone fraud, or more generally communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intention of illegally acquiring money from, or failing to pay, a telecommunication company or its customers. Many operators have increased measures to minimize fraud and reduce their losses.

8. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

9. Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone ... - AOL

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   758 — St. Lucia. 767 — Dominica. 784 — St. Vincent and Grenadines. 809, 829, and 849 — The Dominican Republic. 868 — Trinidad and Tobago. 869 — St. Kitts and Nevis. 876 — Jamaica. It ...