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According to the Federal Trade Commission, scammers will send fake text messages to try and trick you into giving them personal information, like a password, account number, or Social Security number.
• 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.
The rule of thumb is this: Delete the text or emails that are unsolicited and report them as junk. Many scammers use what appear to be harmless phrases to entice the person they are texting ...
There are many reasons why a bad actor may try to flood your inbox with emails: • To distract you from seeing an important email • To hide confirmation emails for financial transactions • To hide or bury confirmation emails for services and products that were charged to you
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.
Image credit: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images. 3. Try a third-party program to help. There are a bunch of apps that can be employed to help protect you from spam or weed out spammers that already have ...
When you enter your email address on someone's website, you may unknowingly subscribe to their mailing list. You can often unsubscribe from their mailings within the email. 1. Tap an email to open it. 2. Tap the More icon 3. Tap Unsubscribe. If there's no unsubscribe option, flag the message as spam or try the subscriptions view tab. 1.
9. Open the email from Google you should have received with your alternate email. 10. Follow the deletion link in the message. 11. If prompted, log into the Gmail account you want to delete.