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  2. How to fight Venmo and PayPal scams [Video] - AOL

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    Well, your best move is to actually ask them why they’re requesting money from you. If they don’t know what you’re talking about, ignore the request. If you need additional help, Venmo and ...

  3. Taylor Swift and Olympics scams fuelling fraud

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    Consumers lost £86m last year to purchase scams, in which they agreed to pay for something that never materialised, UK Finance said. That was up 28% from 2022. In total, there were more than ...

  4. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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    Since there is no limit to a scam artist’s potential, recognizing signs of common scams will serve you well. Here are examples of three of the most common scams out there today and how to block ...

  5. 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.

  6. PayPal - Wikipedia

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    PayPal Holdings, Inc. Headquarters in San Jose, California Company type Public Traded as Nasdaq: PYPL Nasdaq-100 component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Financial technology Predecessors Confinity X.com Founded December 1998 ; 25 years ago (1998-12) (as Confinity) October 1999 ; 24 years ago (1999-10) (as X.com) March 2000 ; 24 years ago (2000-03) (as PayPal) Founders Ken Howery ...

  7. PayPaI - Wikipedia

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    PayPaI. PaypaI is a phishing scam, which targets account holders of the widely used internet payment service, PayPal, taking advantage of the fact that a capital "i" may be difficult to distinguish from a lower-case "L" in some computer fonts. This is a form of a homograph attack . The scam involves sending PayPal account holders a notification ...

  8. Package redirection scam - Wikipedia

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    A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password. AOL will NEVER ask for your password and would not ask you to ...