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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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    What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? 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.

  4. 350,000 Student Loan Robocalls Were Placed This Month - AOL

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    With the resumption of student loan payments set for next month, robocalls scams are surging. An estimated 350,000 such calls were placed so far this month, CBS News reported. See: An Ancient Rule...

  5. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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    A variant is a call forwarding scam, where a fraudster tricks a subscriber into call forwarding their number to either a long-distance number or a number at which the fraudster or an accomplice is accepting collect calls. The unsuspecting subscriber then gets a huge long-distance bill for all of these calls. [3]

  6. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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    The user won’t be able to log into his PC unless he pays the scammer. Microsoft commissioned a survey by YouGov across 16 countries in July 2021 to research tech support scams and their impact on consumers. The survey found that approximately 60% of consumers who participated had been exposed to a technical support scam within the last 12 ...

  8. FedLoan is no longer handling federal student loans: Here’s ...

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    FedLoan Servicing stopped handling federal student loan accounts on December 14, 2021. ... Take notes on any phone calls you have about your student loans and keep copies of letters, bills or ...

  9. Is that student loan phone call a scam? How to avoid ... - AOL

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