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  2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Phishing - an attempt by scammers to pose as a legitimate company or individual to steal someone's personal information, usernames, passwords, or other account information. • 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 ...

  3. Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans ...

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    Investigators are warning of a rise in brazen schemes to drain bank accounts that involve sending couriers in per Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, an FBI ...

  4. A Devastating Click: How an Email Scam Can Cost You ... - AOL

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    He had to open an account at the bank and deposit funds into it. Check Out: Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary: My Morning Habit That Keeps Me From ‘Losing Money 100% of the Time’ Failing To ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. I pleaded guilty to a $3 million fraud charge. This is my ...

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    March 28, 2024 at 5:30 AM. AZemdega—Getty Images. As the sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried draws near, I am vividly reminded of what it felt like when I once sat in that very same seat, awaiting a ...

  7. Barclays Bank plc v Quincecare Ltd - Wikipedia

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    Barclays Bank plc v Quincecare Ltd [1992] 4 All ER 363 is a judicial decision of High Court of Justice of England and Wales in relation to the banker-customer relationship, and in particular in connection with the bank's duties in relation to payment instructions from a customer's agent or purported agent which give rise, or ought to give rise, to a suspicion of fraud.

  8. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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    Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations. Email fraud can take the form of a confidence ...

  9. Libor scandal - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Lo, MIT Professor of Finance The Libor scandal was a series of fraudulent actions connected to the Libor (London Inter-bank Offered Rate) and also the resulting investigation and reaction. Libor is an average interest rate calculated through submissions of interest rates by major banks across the world. The scandal arose when it was discovered in 2012 that banks were falsely inflating ...