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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. Fake news websites in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many popular fake news websites like ABCnews.com.co attempted to impersonate a legitimate U.S. news publication, relying on readers not actually checking the address they typed or clicked on. They exploited common misspellings, slight misphrasings and abuse of top-level domains such as .com.co as opposed to .com.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Project Veritas - Wikipedia

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    Project Veritas is an American far-right [14] activist [15] group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010. [19] The group produces deceptively edited videos [13] of its undercover operations, [5] which use secret recordings [5] in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations and progressive groups. [20] [21] Project Veritas also uses ...

  7. Scammers now using verification codes to hijack phone numbers

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    Scammers now using verification codes to hijack phone numbers. /. Loaded 0%. A new scam tries to use your phone number to scam others, and you could be at risk if you post your number in any ...

  8. Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam - Wikipedia

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    Uttar Pradesh NRHM Scam is an alleged corruption scandal in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in which top politicians and bureaucrats are alleged to have siphoned off a massive sum estimated at ₹ 100 billion (US$1.3 billion) from the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), a central government program meant to improve health care delivery in rural areas.

  9. PRISM - Wikipedia

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    PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. [1] [2] [3] The program is also known by the SIGAD US-984XN. [4] [5] PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC ...