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  2. Add or disable 2-step verification for extra security - AOL Help

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    Use 2-step with phone verification We'll send you a text or call you with a new code that needs to be entered at sign-in. The phone number we contact you with may be different each time.

  3. Telephone number verification - Wikipedia

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    Telephone number verification (or validation) services are online services used to establish whether a given telephone number is in service. They may include a form of Turing test to further determine if a human answers or answering equipment such as a modem, fax, voice mMail or answering machine .

  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. Account verification - Wikipedia

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    During the process of verifying a telephone number, a confirmation code is sent to a phone number specified by a user, for example in an SMS message sent to a mobile phone. As the user receives the code sent, they can enter it on the website to confirm their receipt.

  6. Fix problems signing into your AOL account - AOL Help

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    If you sign in from a device, program, or location that we haven't seen you use before, we may ask you to enter a verification code (sent to your recovery mobile phone or email address) to...

  7. Multi-factor authentication - Wikipedia

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    Many multi-factor authentication vendors offer mobile phone-based authentication. Some methods include push-based authentication, QR code-based authentication, one-time password authentication (event-based and time-based), and SMS-based verification. SMS-based verification suffers from some security concerns.

  8. Why am I asked to verify my account after signing in?

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    You may be prompted to get a verification code at your recovery phone number or recovery email address for any of the following reasons: • AOL notices suspicious account activity. • You're...

  9. SMS - Wikipedia

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    An SMS message written on a Motorola Razr V3. E.161, a common mobile keypad alphabet layout. Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text messages.

  10. Google Voice - Wikipedia

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    Google Voice does not officially support SMS to phone numbers outside of the United States. As of 1 June 2010 [update] Google had purposely blocked international texts, with the intention of reintroducing the service once billing systems are in place.

  11. Text messaging - Wikipedia

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    Text messaging. A text message using SMS – the 160 character limit and difficulty of typing on feature phone keypads led to the abbreviations of "SMS language". The word "lol" sent via iMessage. Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters ...