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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. Blessing scam - Wikipedia

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    A New Zealand Police poster warning the public about blessing scams. The blessing scam, also called the ghost scam or jewelry scam, is a confidence trick typically perpetrated against elderly women of Chinese origin. The scam originated in China and Hong Kong and victims have fallen to it worldwide including in Chinatowns and overseas Chinese ...

  4. 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.

  5. Referrer spam - Wikipedia

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    Spammers send fake visits to Google Analytics, often without ever accessing the affected site. The technique is used to have the spammers' URLs appear in the site statistics, inducing the site owner to visit the spam URLs. If the spammer has never visited the affected site, the fake visits are also called ghost spam. [2]

  6. Scam - Wikipedia

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    A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity , naivety , compassion , vanity , confidence , irresponsibility , and greed .

  7. The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by WhatsApp and text ...

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    The scams work like this: Someone sends a text or WhatsApp message to the target about online jobs. When the target responds, the sender says they’ll need to complete tasks related to topics ...

  8. I’ve been scammed — will my bank refund the money? - AOL

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    Whether or not your bank will refund the money you lose in a scam depends on several factors: the type of scam, how you sent the funds, the bank’s policies and if you authorized the transaction ...

  9. AI voice scams are on the rise. Here's how to protect yourself.

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    Phone numbers also can be spoofed to mimic those of callers known to the target of voice cloning scams. In 2023, senior citizens were conned out of roughly $3.4 billion in a range of financial ...