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  2. How to fight Venmo and PayPal scams - AOL

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    You’ll even see the same amount of money the con artist mentioned in your account balance, which lends at least a hint of truth to the fraud. The scam text I received. (Image: Howley) (Howley)

  3. Think before you click this holiday season: Payment app fraud ...

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    Scam #3: Charitable contribution and investment scams Watch out for this scam, where scammers research personal information about you; lifting info gleaned from our social media pages.

  4. 5 New Texting Scams To Watch Out For - AOL

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    Here are five new text message scams that will take your money. ... During a PayPal scam, scammers send text messages claiming to be from PayPal to alert you that there is an issue with your ...

  5. Package redirection scam - Wikipedia

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    A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...

  6. PayPaI - Wikipedia

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    The scam involves sending PayPal account holders a notification email claiming that PayPal has "temporarily suspended" their account. Instead of linking to PayPal.com, the site references in the email link to a convincing duplicate of the site at paypai.com, in the hope that the user will enter their PayPal login details, which the owner of ...

  7. 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.

  8. Card-not-present transaction - Wikipedia

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    If a fraudulent CNP transaction is reported, the acquiring bank hosting the merchant account that received the money from the fraudulent transaction must make restitution to the cardholder, which is called a chargeback. In addition, the merchant account would be assessed a chargeback fee by the acquiring bank. [1]

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail , if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail , if it's an important account email.