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  2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and ... - AOL Help

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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.

  3. New social media scam - keep your Instagram account ... - AOL

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    Consumer Advocate gives tips on keeping your Instagram account secure. ... 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in. Subscriptions;

  4. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Protect yourself from internet scams. The internet can be a fun place to interact with people and gain info, however, it can also be a dangerous place if you don't know what you're doing. Many times, these scams initiate from an unsolicited email. If you do end up getting any suspicious or fraudulent emails, make sure you immediately delete the ...

  5. Instagram users are easy targets for get-rich-quick ... - AOL

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    Yahoo Finance outlines an elaborate money-flipping scam running rampant on Meta’s popular social networking platform Instagram users are easy targets for get-rich-quick investment scams [Video ...

  6. Protecting your AOL Account - AOL Help

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    Use different passwords. Using a single password for AOL and other sites (Facebook, Twitter, or banking websites) may place your AOL account, username or email at risk. We suggest using unique passwords for each site you visit. Be creative. Make sure that your password is difficult for others to guess, but easy for you to remember.

  7. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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    In September 2011, Microsoft dropped gold partner Comantra from its Microsoft Partner Network following accusations of involvement in cold-call technical-support scams. However, the ease of which companies that carry out technical support scams can be launched makes it difficult to prevent tech support scams from taking place.

  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. Beware the new 'hours to make' scam going viral on Instagram

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    A new Instagram con has people worried. People are reporting unusual messages from random Instagram accounts that follow the same misleading script. In the scam, users receive a message from a ...