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

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   Always use a strong password with a combination of letters, numbers and special symbols. Register for two-factor authentication if a website lets you do so. The scammer may not attempt to breach ...

3. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

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   SMS spoofing. SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which ...

4. What You Need to Know About Spam Calls and 7 Ways to ... - AOL

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   To make matters more complicated, in the era of COVID-19, you may need to receive important calls from numbers you don’t recognize, like test results or a call from a contact tracer.

5. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   You can call 888-382-1222 or visit DoNotCall.gov to report spam calls, telemarketers or robo-callers. Are 877 numbers spam? 877 numbers are toll-free numbers often used by businesses and ...

6. How to stop robocalls and spam calls for good - AOL

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   You can call 1-888-382-1222 to register (just make sure you’re calling from the number you want to be added), or visit donotcall.gov and add each number manually.” —Dan Bailey, president of ...

7. Mobile phone spam - Wikipedia

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   Mobile phone spam is a form of spam (unsolicited messages, especially advertising), directed at the text messaging or other communications services of mobile phones or smartphones. As the popularity of mobile phones surged in the early 2000s, frequent users of text messaging began to see an increase in the number of unsolicited (and generally ...

8. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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   Phone fraud. Phone fraud, or more generally communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intention of illegally acquiring money from, or failing to pay, a telecommunication company or its customers. Many operators have increased measures to minimize fraud and reduce their losses.

9. 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.