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  2. Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone ...

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    721 — Sint Maarten. 758 — St. Lucia. 767 — Dominica. 784 — St. Vincent and Grenadines. 809, 829, and 849 — The Dominican Republic. 868 — Trinidad and Tobago. 869 — St. Kitts and ...

  3. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.

  4. The mystery behind those creepy 'Unknown' spam calls - AOL

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    The mystery behind these creepy 'Unknown' spam calls often begins with data breaches or information leaks. Scammers obtain partial information from various sources, including public records ...

  5. Beware 'beautiful women' and 'handsome guys' who want to turn ...

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    HONG KONG — China’s main intelligence agency has a warning for young people: Beware of “handsome guys” and “beautiful women” looking to turn them into spies. University students with ...

  6. Bride scam - Wikipedia

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    Bride scam. A bride scam is a form of romance scam - a confidence trick that aims to defraud potential grooms with the offer of a foreign bride. The basis of the confidence trick is to seek men from the western world who would like to marry a foreign woman and pretend to be willing to marry them. The woman (scammer) asks the man to send money ...

  7. 809 scam - Wikipedia

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    An 809 scam is a form of phone fraud which exploits the tendency of telephone subscribers in Canada and the United States to presume that a number in the familiar North American Numbering Plan format of 1-NPA-NXX-XXXX is a domestic call at standard rates because of the absence of the 011- international prefix which normally indicates an overseas call.

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

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  9. Sextortion - Wikipedia

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    In May 2010, the police of the Basque Country in Spain arrested a 24-year-old man accused of blackmailing a woman he met on an online chatroom and threatening to distribute nude photographs of her from her webcam. [47] A video of the Chinese Communist Party official Lei Zhengfu having sex with a woman was a part of a sextortion plot by a ...