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  2. What's a phishing scam? Cyber security experts break it down

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    The scam may look like it's from a bank, a credit card company, a social networking site, an online payment website or app or an online store you're familiar with.

  3. Sextortion - Wikipedia

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    A demand of money is then made, though usually the scam is either a bluff (e.g. the scammer never intended to publish them) or the pictures/videos are published regardless even if the money is sent. [1] Sextortion (a portmanteau of sex and extortion) employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim.

  4. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    Published false claim that images of a mountain formation in Antartica is evidence of an ancient civilization. [180] [202] Feature Remedies featureremedies.com Falsely claimed that ginger is a more effective cancer treatment than chemotherapy. [188] [203] [204] Food Babe: foodbabe.com Active Promoted anti-vaccine misinformation.

  5. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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    AOL Mail is focused on keeping you safe while you use the best mail product on the web. One way we do this is by protecting against phishing and scam emails though the use of AOL Official Mail. When we send you important emails, we'll mark the message with a small AOL icon beside the sender name.

  6. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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    A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.

  7. Bitcoin Scam Using Unauthorized Celebrity Images in Ads ... - AOL

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    A Guardian Australia investigation traced the source of a major crypto scam using Google ads to addresses in Moscow. Bitcoin Scam Using Unauthorized Celebrity Images in Ads Traced to Moscow ...

  8. Free car media -- easy cash or scam? - AOL

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    You've seen free car media -- regular passenger cars, not company cars, plastered with advertising. Owners of these cars receive a monthly check to compensate them for allowing advertisers to ...

  9. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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    Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to defraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations.