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  2. 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.

  3. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    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 ...

  4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".

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

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    800-290-4726 more ways to reach ... All the major wireless providers offer some form of free scam protection to customers so make sure you are using the tools available to you. ... the company ...

  6. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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    On June 3, 2003, a Taco Bell manager in Juneau, Alaska received a call from a man who claimed to be working for the company and investigating drug abuse at the restaurant where the manager worked. The manager then picked a 14-year-old female customer, whom he believed to be the suspect, strip-searched the customer and made her perform several ...

  7. Simplicity Pattern - Wikipedia

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    The Simplicity Pattern Company is a manufacturer of sewing pattern guides, under the "Simplicity Pattern", "It's So Easy" and "New Look" brands. The company was founded in 1927 in New York City . During the Great Depression , Simplicity allowed home seamstresses to create fashionable clothing in a reliable manner.

  8. Don't fall for a credit repair scam: Clean up your credit for ...

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    800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. ... How to recognize a credit repair scam. Just because a credit repair company is well known or comes highly recommended doesn't mean it's trustworthy ...

  9. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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    In the US, owners of customer-owned coin-operated telephones (COCOTs) are paid sixty cents for every call their users make to a toll-free telephone number, with the charges billed to the called number. A fraudulent COCOT provider could potentially auto-dial 1-800 wrong numbers and get paid for these as "calls received from a payphone" with ...