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

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    The most robust protection comes from T-Mobile’s Scam Shield. This app offers a front-line defense against scammers including free warnings of potential scam calls and the ability to block ...

  3. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? 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.

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

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    Changing a phone number is easy, so it’s challenging to catch every scam phone number out there. ... You can call 888-382-1222 or visit DoNotCall.gov to report spam calls, ...

  6. How to spot a scam online - AOL

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    Online scam No. 3: Your "grandchild" asks for money over the phone. Scammers may try to pretend to be your grandchildren. (Photo: Getty) (fizkes via Getty Images) The panicked phone call sounds so ...

  7. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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    The pop-up instructs the victim to call the scammers via a phone number to fix the "error". Technical support scams can also be initiated via cold calls. These are usually robocalls which claim to be associated with a legitimate third party such as Microsoft or Apple.

  8. T-Mobile US - Wikipedia

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    T-Mobile US. T-Mobile US, Inc., often shortened as T-Mobile, is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, U.S. [5] Its largest shareholder is multinational telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG, a German company headquartered in Bonn, Germany.

  9. Use AOL Certified Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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    If you're ever concerned about the legitimacy of these emails, just check to see if there's a green "AOL Certified Mail" icon beside the sender name. When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details. When you get a message that seems to be from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't ...