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  2. 5 New Texting Scams To Watch Out For - AOL

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    PayPal Text Message Scam. During a PayPal scam, scammers send text messages claiming to be from PayPal to alert you that there is an issue with your account. You will be prompted to either call a ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Scammers take advantage of kindness by asking to borrow ... - AOL

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    scam: Maybe a 16-year-old approaches you at the mall, grocery store, or even an outdoor festival and wants to call Mom to get a ride home. Or maybe, someone's car broke down. Or maybe, someone's ...

  5. Phishing - Wikipedia

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    Phishers have sometimes used images instead of text to make it harder for anti-phishing filters to detect the text commonly used in phishing emails. In response, more sophisticated anti-phishing filters are able to recover hidden text in images using optical character recognition (OCR). Social engineering A fake virus notification

  6. PayPaI - Wikipedia

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    PayPaI. PaypaI is a phishing scam, which targets account holders of the widely used internet payment service, PayPal, taking advantage of the fact that a capital "i" may be difficult to distinguish from a lower-case "L" in some computer fonts. This is a form of a homograph attack . The scam involves sending PayPal account holders a notification ...

  7. PayPal - Wikipedia

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    PayPal allows customers to send, receive, and hold funds in 25 currencies worldwide. Business model evolution. PayPal's success in users and volumes was the product of a three-phase strategy described by former eBay CEO Meg Whitman: "First, PayPal focused on expanding its service among eBay users in the US. Second, we began expanding PayPal to ...

  8. How to avoid PayPal scams - AOL

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    The best way to protect yourself against PayPal scams is with a powerful password manager. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  9. Elon Musk - Wikipedia

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    Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His mother, Maye Musk (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.