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2. 2023 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data breach

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   The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) experienced a significant security breach when a former employee transferred confidential information on approximately 256,000 consumers and forty-five financial institutions to their personal email account. [3] [4] The unauthorized transfer involved data from seven firms, though the majority of ...

3. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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   Faxed scam letters are in no way an uncommon occurrence. Today many scam letters are still faxed to corporate institutions, although they are not a large amount due to cost restraints on behalf of offenders. Electronic mail. E-mail is today the prevalent way in which scam letters are distributed.

4. Credit card fraud - Wikipedia

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   A fake automated teller slot used for "skimming". Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. [1] The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI ...

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

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   A Devastating Click: How an Email Scam Can Cost You Your Life Savings. Kristopher Kane. April 28, 2024 at 5:00 PM. ©Shutterstock.com. It’s a story that’s becoming increasingly too common. A ...

6. AI is making financial scams harder to detect [Video] - AOL

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   ‘AI is a problem for everyone’ Recently, online scams have shot up. Federal Trade Commission data released in February showed that consumers lost roughly $8.8 billion due to fraud in 2022 ...

7. 6 Financial Scams and How You Can Avoid Them With These ... - AOL

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   Financial scams are responsible for huge monetary losses by American consumers each year, and they've been on the uptick recently. Federal Trade Commission data from 2021 shows the agency received ...

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. Phishing - Wikipedia

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   Clone phishing is a type of attack where a legitimate email with an attachment or link is copied and modified to contain malicious content. The modified email is then sent from a fake address made to look like it's from the original sender. The attack may appear to be a resend or update of the original email.