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2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   • Don't use internet search engines to find AOL contact info, as they may lead you to malicious websites and support scams. Always go directly to AOL Help Central for legitimate AOL customer support. • Never click suspicious-looking links. Hover over hyperlinks with your cursor to preview the destination URL.

3. 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 ...

4. Tax scam alert: How to protect yourself and your tax refund - AOL

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   Almost 40% of people who get a scam message or call actually send the scammer money. Younger adults are particularly vulnerable; more than half of 18- to 24-year-olds know someone who's paid up.

5. Scammers are now sending fake toll-collection texts to get ...

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   The Better Business Bureau told Business Insider last month that a similar scam text campaign impersonating the US Postal Service was one of the largest scams the organization saw during the ...

6. Watch Out for These 4 Ticketmaster and StubHub Scams - AOL

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   With icons like Taylor Swift on tour this summer, concert ticket purchases are booming. Unfortunately, so are ticket scams.In 2022, the Better Business Bureau received over 140 reports on BBB Scam ...

7. Maria Duval scam - Wikipedia

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   The Maria Duval scam is one of the most successful mail scams in history, having defrauded millions of people out of at least $200 million over twenty years. Targeting sick and elderly people through a combination of personalized letters and personal information databases, it has been shut down in the United States in 2016, but is still ongoing in many countries.

8. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   The scam then becomes an advance-fee fraud or a check fraud. A wide variety of reasons can be offered for the trickster's lack of cash, but rather than just borrow the money from the victim (advance fee fraud), the con-artist normally declares that they have checks which the victim can cash on their behalf and remit the money via a non ...

9. Arrests made in 'grandparent scam' that fleeced millions from ...

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   Scams targeting the elderly are the on the rise. A report released in April 2024 by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported 101,000 elder fraud complaints with collective losses of $3 ...