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You receive a phone call stating your child has been arrested and needs bail money sent immediately. BBB offers tips to avoid the "emergency" scam. BBB Scam Alert: Emergency scams instill fear via ...
Phone number lookup service ReversePhone recently compiled the top five area codes and phone numbers used by scammers in 2024. The list is based on the number of complaints about scam calls from ...
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
• 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.
A JavaScript function can check to see if a phone number is a valid format, i.e., is numeric, starts with a valid set of numbers ("0" for local, or an international dialing prefix followed by a valid country code) and is not too short to be a phone number. At first a JavaScript function is used to clear out any spacer characters.
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.
Jason Cox of the Transportation Communications Union testified that since 2019, Norfolk Southern has slashed the number of expert car inspectors it employs, and that it had been exploiting a loophole in Federal regulations by having train crews do a 12-point inspection on railcars instead of the 90 to 105-point checks done by an expert carman.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center is aware of the scams, which have been reported since March 2024. Anyone receiving such a text should report it at www.ic3.gov .