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These phone scams might be hot and new right now, but beware of these more “classic” phone call scams that can steal your money, too. Show comments Advertisement
• 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.
All the major wireless providers offer some form of free scam protection to customers so make sure you are using the tools available to you. The most robust protection comes from T-Mobile’s Scam ...
888 numbers indicate it is a toll-free call. Calls made to toll-free numbers are paid for by the recipient rather than the caller, making them particularly popular among call centers and other ...
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.
Scam Likely [26] is a term used for scam call identification, the term was originally coined by T-Mobile for the scam ID technology created by First Orion. [27] First Orion's scam blocking technology uses a combination of known bad actors, AI powered blocking including neighborhood spoofing and unusual calling pattern.
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.
Jim Browning is the Internet alias of a software engineer and YouTuber from Northern Ireland [1] whose content focuses on scam baiting and investigating call centres engaging in fraudulent activities. Browning cooperates with other YouTubers and law enforcement when they seek his expertise in investigating and infiltrating scam call centers.