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2. 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 ...

3. Add, replace or remove AOL account recovery info - AOL Help

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   Call paid premium support at 1-800-358-4860 to get live expert help from AOL Customer Care. Find out how to add or delete a recovery mobile phone number or alternate email address from your AOL account.

4. 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.

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

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   Always use a strong password with a combination of letters, numbers and special symbols. Register for two-factor authentication if a website lets you do so. The scammer may not attempt to breach ...

6. 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 ...

7. Telephone slamming - Wikipedia

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   Telephone slamming. Telephone slamming is an illegal telecommunications practice, in which a subscriber's telephone service is changed without their consent. Slamming became a more visible issue after the deregulation of the telecommunications industry in the mid-1980s, especially after several price wars between the major telecommunications ...

8. 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.

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

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   Now, many scam phone numbers have different area codes, including 809, which originates in the Caribbean. Another area code to look out for may look like it’s coming from the United States, but ...