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  2. 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.

  3. Purina Responds to Those Social Media 'Rumors' About Pet Food ...

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    Complaints about any brand of pet food should be reported to the FDA (see instructions for How to Report a Pet Food Complaint). If your pet is experiencing symptoms, consult a vet.

  4. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    Often users will find the letter from a young and attractive female wanting to meet or relocate to the users' country. After invoking their confidence trick on the user they will require the recipient of the scam letter to pay the funds necessary for the relocation. Once paid, the correspondence ends and the writer never appears.

  5. How to spot phishing scams and keep your info safe - AOL

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    Scammers can use your email to target you directly. And, unfortunately, plenty of email phishing scams today are more sophisticated than the older varieties that would directly ask for your ...

  6. FBI Tech Tuesday: Beware of lost pet scams - AOL

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    Nov. 7—EL PASO — Few things tug at our hearts like adorable animals in danger or the distraught humans who miss them. Most of us have seen posts on social media from pet owners trying ...

  7. Phishing - Wikipedia

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    Phishing is a form of social engineering and a scam where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information [1] or installing malware such as viruses, worms, adware, or ransomware.

  8. 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]

  9. Go phish? Cybersecurity experts explain what phishing ... - AOL

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    It's easy to assume you'd never fall for a phishing scam, but more people than you realize become victims of these cyber crimes each year. Case in point: The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center ...