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Imagine walking into your local AT&T store to troubleshoot a problem with your cellphone only to learn you’ve fallen victim to financial fraud — and to the tune of $3,700.
• 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.
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 ...
When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details. When you get a message that seems to be from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Official Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.
Holiday shopping scams to watch out for. In an effort to protect the public from falling prey to scammers as they do their holiday shopping, the FBI has offered some keys ways to avoid any ...
Very similar to the casting agent scam is the "job offer" scam in which a victim receives an unsolicited e-mail claiming that they are in consideration for hiring to a new job. The confidence artist will usually obtain the victim's name from social networking sites, such as LinkedIn and Monster.com. In many cases, those running the scams will ...
Apple released the iPhone in the United States with a software "lock" so it could only be used on the AT&T Mobility network. [12] After purchase, buyers activated their iPhone's AT&T service contract using the Apple iTunes software, [13] during which buyers had the ability to choose their billing preference; however, if no option was specified during activation AT&T defaulted to using detailed ...
Hackers stole six months' worth of call and text message records of nearly every AT&T cellular network customer, the company said Friday, a breach that has the potential to reveal sensitive ...