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2. 100 Most Common Money Scams and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   Here are a few examples of common home improvement scams. ... Advance Fee Scams. Advanced fee scams are deceptively simple: You get a highly desirable offer, and all you have to do is pay a small ...

3. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.

4. 15 Common Financial Scams — And How to Avoid Them - AOL

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   Every year, about 90% of consumers either fall for or encounter online scams. And while many consumers are sophisticated enough to avoid some of the most common scams, it doesn't take much for a ...

5. 6 Dangerous Money Scams To Avoid - AOL

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   Financial scams are responsible for huge monetary losses by American consumers each year, and they've been on the uptick recently. Federal Trade Commission data from 2021 shows the agency received ...

6. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]

7. List of types of fraud - Wikipedia

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   a type of § advance-fee fraud that takes the form of informing an individual by email, letter or phone call that they have won a lottery prize. The victim is instructed to pay a fee to enable the non-existent winnings to be processed. Mail and wire; Marriage; Medicare

8. Lottery scam - Wikipedia

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   Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page where the recipient had won a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly but the scammers are just using a third party company, person, email or names to hide their true identity, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, if the user rings within 4 ...

9. 6 Dangerous Money Scams To Avoid - AOL

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