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If you've confirmed the message is safe, we recommend you review your connected devices, confirm or delete your app password, or use the AOL app to ensure continued safe access to your account. If you think the message indicates suspicious activity, we recommend you change your password and secure your account.
Think of your account password and the verification code as working together, similar to a doorknob lock and a deadbolt. If you unlock the doorknob but not the deadbolt, you can't get inside.
• 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.
If someone asks you for a verification code, report the conversation to BBB Scam Tracker. If you think someone is impersonating your bank or another organization, contact them using a phone number ...
Here is what you should do if you get a scam text: Copy the message, without clicking on a link, and forward it to 7726 (SPAM). This helps your wireless provider spot and block similar messages in ...
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.
Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...
People have gotten pretty good at recognizing email phishing scams for the most part, and while most know to be wary of links in emails, they still haven't yet grown the same kind of mental armor ...