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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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    1. One-Ring Scams. Scammers use one-ring scams to get you, the victim, to call back. ... You can call 888-382-1222 or visit DoNotCall.gov to report spam calls, telemarketers or robo-callers.

  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. Stimulus Scam: Do Not Open IRS Emails About a Third ... - AOL

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    The U.S. government issued a series of stimulus payments in 2020 and 2021 to help Americans get through the coronavirus pandemic. By law, the last of those payments was issued no later than Dec ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    Today scam letters are a general part of electronic life, ending up in mailboxes in hordes. Types Lottery scam letter. Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money ...

  9. Toll-free telephone number - Wikipedia

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    A toll-free telephone number or freephone number is a telephone number that is billed for all arriving calls. For the calling party, a call to a toll-free number from a landline is free of charge. A toll-free number is identified by a dialing prefix similar to an area code. The specific service access varies by country.