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2. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   If it’s a common scam number, you’ll probably find reports from people who have answered. 3 Common Types of Scam Calls Several different types of phone scams exist.

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

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   The post What You Need to Know About Phone Scams appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... Scammers know how to fake a phone number. Kerskie describes a scam where a client received a spoof call from ...

4. How to identify a scam call before you're taken ... - AOL

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   Step away from your phone! If you don't know these new scams identified by the FCC, you could be a target. ... 809 scam. If you receive a call from a number with an 809 area code, it might appear ...

5. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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   Example of caller ID spoofed via orange boxing; both the name and number are faked to reference leetspeak. Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station.

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. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   The internet can be a fun place to interact with people and gain info, however, it can also be a dangerous place if you don't know what you're doing. Many times, these scams initiate from an unsolicited email. If you do end up getting any suspicious or fraudulent emails, make sure you immediately delete the message or mark it as spam.