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

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    If you need additional help, Venmo and PayPal offer support pages to help you navigate other scams. Follow these steps and you should be just a bit safer online. Sign up for Yahoo Finance Tech ...

  3. 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.

  4. Secure your AOL account - AOL Help

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    • Don't fall for phishing scams - Don't click links you're unsure about, even from friends. • Check your login activity - Check the recent activity on your account for unusual logins. • Delete security questions - It's more secure to add an email address or phone number to secure your account; remove your questions if you haven't already.

  5. Protecting your AOL Account - AOL Help

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    Don’t be fooled when a suspicious email, link, chat room or pop-up window claiming to be AOL asks for your password. AOL will NEVER ask you for your password or other personal information. Whenever AOL needs to contact you for official purposes, you will receive AOL Certified Mail. Sign out. Always sign out if you're not using your AOL account.

  6. How to spot phishing scams and keep your info safe - AOL

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    They say they've noticed suspicious activity or log-in attempts on your account. They claim there’s a problem with your account or your payment information. They say you need to submit certain ...

  7. Spoofed URL - Wikipedia

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    Spoofed URL contributing to PayPal phishing scam Susceptible targets. PayPal, an e-commerce business allows money transactions to be made through the Internet and is a common target for spoofed URLs. This forgery of a legitimate PayPal website allows hackers to gain personal and financial information and thus, steal money through fraud. Along ...

  8. Phishing - Wikipedia

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    Clone phishing is a type of attack where a legitimate email with an attachment or link is copied and modified to contain malicious content. The modified email is then sent from a fake address made to look like it's from the original sender. The attack may appear to be a resend or update of the original email.

  9. PayPaI - Wikipedia

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    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 email ...