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2. Windows Defender Security Center scam: How to protect your ...

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   1) Unsolicited pop-ups claiming to be from Microsoft or other security services: Janet’s story highlights a common scam tactic, which is fake alerts masquerading as official warnings. Microsoft ...

3. Protecting yourself from Microsoft tech support scams - AOL

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   Here are the six most common warning signs that you're being targeted by a sophisticated tech support scam: Read On The Fox News App Unsolicited contact: Be wary of unexpected calls, emails or pop ...

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.

5. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   Legal action has been taken against some companies carrying out technical support scams. [56] In December 2014, Microsoft filed a lawsuit against a California-based company operating such scams for "misusing Microsoft's name and trademarks" and "creating security issues for victims by gaining access to their computers and installing malicious ...

6. Microsoft hoax - Wikipedia

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   A Microsoft hoax may refer to: A technical support scam where a fraudulent caller impersonates Microsoft or Windows technical support; The Microsoft acquisition hoax in which a bogus 1994 press release claims Microsoft has acquired the Roman Catholic Church; jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax, an e-mail spam in 2002 involving a legitimate Microsoft Windows ...

7. 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.

8. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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   AOL Mail is focused on keeping you safe while you use the best mail product on the web. One way we do this is by protecting against phishing and scam emails though the use of AOL Official Mail. When we send you important emails, we'll mark the message with a small AOL icon beside the sender name.

9. MS Antivirus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   In a typical installation, MS Antivirus runs a scan on the computer and gives a false spyware report claiming that the computer is infected with spyware. Once the scan is completed, a warning message appears that lists the spyware ‘found’ and the user either has to click on a link or a button to remove it.