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  2. Straight Talk: Handle mail from mortgage company carefully - AOL

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    One BBB Scam Tracker report noticed: “At the very bottom of the letter in small print is the comment, ‘Not all consumers have previous coverage. We are not affiliated with your current ...

  3. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    The oldest reference to the origin of scam letters could be found at the Spanish Prisoner scam. [1] This scam dates back to the 1580s, where the fictitious prisoner would promise to share non-existent treasure with the person who would send him money to bribe the guards.

  4. 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.

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    FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report revealed there were 9,521 real estate-based fraud complaints in 2023, which resulted in over $145 million in losses. The fraudsters wisely ...

  6. Did you get an unsolicited $199 ‘check’ in the mail? Don’t ...

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    The letters, received by several residents in January, contain what looks like a $199 check that purports to be a “Registration Fee Voucher” from “County Deed Records.”

  7. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.

  8. Scam baiting - Wikipedia

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    For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...

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