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2. A Complete Guide To Avoiding Financial Scams - AOL

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   In 2021, more than 2.8 million consumers reported that they were victims of scams, with total losses for the year adding up to $5.8 billion, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC also...

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

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   This app offers a front-line defense against scammers including free warnings of potential scam calls and the ability to block likely scam calls completely with Scam Block.

4. Most Common Ways People Are Being Scammed Out of Money ... - AOL

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   More and more Americans are finding themselves victims of financial scams. According to data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 2.4 million consumers filed fraud reports in 2022. Read: How...

5. 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.

6. 4 Ways Phone Scams Steal Your Money — and How To Avoid Them

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   Did you know 17% of Americans have experienced phone scams? In August 2023, GOBankingRates polled 1,141 Americans to find out if they have ever experienced a financial scam. Seventeen percent of...

7. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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   By the end of February 2017, the scam was reported in the United Kingdom by CPR Call Blocker, a call blocking company warning of it in The Independent. On March 27, 2017, the FCC issued an official warning about the telephone scam. They defined it as, "Scammers open by asking a yes-or-no question, such as: "Can you hear me?"

8. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

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   An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money. The scammer then attempts to convince the victim to return the difference between the ...

9. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   888 numbers indicate it is a toll-free call. Calls made to toll-free numbers are paid for by the recipient rather than the caller, making them particularly popular among call centers and other ...