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2. Spoofing scams: How to recognize and protect yourself from ...

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   If you get a call from what appears to be a government agency, company, or other official source, hang up and dial the number you can find on the group's website, in the phone book, or on any ...

3. How to identify a scam call before you're taken advantage of

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   The best move here is to simply not answer the phone when you’re getting a call from a strange number—and especially a strange area code. Your phone isn’t the only place that people will try ...

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

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   Phone scams are on the rise as scammers see opportunity thanks to many Americans getting stimulus checks, an increase in concern about COVID vaccine distribution and soon, the annual tax season ...

5. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? 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.

6. 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.

7. How to spot a scam online - AOL

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   And whatever you do, don’t send cash, gift cards, or money transfers. You can report scam phone calls to the FTC Complaint Assistant. Online scam No. 4: "Tech support” reaches out to you ...

8. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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   A variant is a call forwarding scam, where a fraudster tricks a subscriber into call forwarding their number to either a long-distance number or a number at which the fraudster or an accomplice is accepting collect calls. The unsuspecting subscriber then gets a huge long-distance bill for all of these calls. [3]

9. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   What phone number can I call to report a spam call? You can call 888-382-1222 or visit DoNotCall.gov to report spam calls, telemarketers or robo-callers. Are 877 numbers spam?