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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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    List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers. The good news is that scam callers will often show up ...

  5. 988 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    988 (telephone number) 988 (sometimes written 9-8-8) is a telephone number used in some North American (NANP) countries for a suicide prevention helpline. In the United States, it is known as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the number 1-800-273-8255 ). In Canada, it is known as the 9-8-8 ...

  6. How to fight Venmo and PayPal scams [Video] - AOL

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    Well, your best move is to actually ask them why they’re requesting money from you. If they don’t know what you’re talking about, ignore the request. If you need additional help, Venmo and ...

  7. PayPal Mafia - Wikipedia

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    The " PayPal Mafia " is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and/or developed additional technology companies based in Silicon Valley [1] such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Affirm, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. [2] Most of the members attended Stanford University or ...

  8. Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone ... - AOL

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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 ...

  9. Internet fraud - Wikipedia

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    Nina Kollars of the Naval War College explains an Internet fraud scheme that she stumbled upon while shopping on eBay.. Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance.