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2. Drop swindle - Wikipedia

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   The drop swindle was a confidence trick commonly used during the 19th and 20th centuries. Employing a variety of techniques the con usually consists of the "dropper", who purposely drops a wallet containing counterfeit money near a potential victim.

3. 3 Common Digital Transaction Scams: How You Can Avoid Them - AOL

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   The shift from cash to digital payments -- credit cards and debit cards, mobile payment apps and digital wallets -- has taken the world by storm. According to a report by McKinsey & Company, more...

4. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   The melon drop is a scam similar to the Chinese version Pèngcí in which a scammer will cause an unsuspecting mark to bump into them, causing the scammer to drop an item of alleged value. The scam originally targeted Japanese tourists due to the high price of honeymelon (cantaloupe) in Japan.

5. Cyber Security Experts Share the Scariest Money Scams ... - AOL

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   The scam is threatening not only your health but also your wallet. People who want to get around the Ozempic shortage or pay less are actually costing them a lot more.

6. How to protect yourself, and your wallet, from scams this ...

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   Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. ... and your wallet, from scams as both a buyer and a seller. Practice good cybersecurity hygiene.

7. 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.

8. Pigeon drop - Wikipedia

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   The 1987 film House of Games contains a pigeon drop in the second act. [18] In 1983, Season 10 of The Jeffersons began with a three-episode arc about a pigeon drop scam. [19] The 2015 Better Call Saul episode "Hero" features a scene where Jimmy McGill and his friend, Marco Pasternak, use a pigeon drop to scam a mark out of a wallet. Jimmy ...

9. 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 ...