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Venmo has made transferring cash more convenient than ever, but some scammers are using the app to steal your money. The post 6 Common Venmo Scams to Watch Out For appeared first on Reader's Digest.
The modern-day version of the chain letter is a Venmo scam. A scammer could assure you that if you send $100 today to a Venmo account, then by next week, you’ll have $1,000 back.
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.
• 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.
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.
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. If you get an ...
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When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details. When you get a message that seems to be from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Official Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.