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2. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.

3. 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.

4. Be on the lookout for these common phone scam area codes - AOL

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   The scam here is that the number is a premium-rate number owned by the scammers, so, by calling them, you incur a high charge rate, often the second the call goes through. How to stay safe:

5. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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   People talking phone. Men and women calling by telephone. Communication and conversation with smartphone vector characters set. Illustration of phone call, speaking social, talking and chatting

6. Sick of those scam text messages? What you can do - AOL

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   According to the Federal Trade Commission, scammers will send fake text messages to try and trick you into giving them personal information, like a password, account number, or Social Security number.

7. Evil twin (wireless networks) - Wikipedia

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   The counterfeit access point may be given the same SSID and BSSID as a nearby Wi-Fi network. The evil twin can be configured to pass Internet traffic through to the legitimate access point while monitoring the victim's connection, [3] or it can simply say the system is temporarily unavailable after obtaining a username and password. [4] [5] [6] [7]

8. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is via gift cards. [41] Gift cards are favoured by scammers because they are readily available to buy and have less consumer protections in place that could allow the victim to reclaim their money back. Additionally, the usage of gift cards as payment allows the scammers to extract ...

9. Internet fraud - Wikipedia

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   Nina Kollars of the Naval War College explains an Internet fraud scheme that she stumbled upon while shopping on eBay.. Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance.