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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.
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.
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
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Scam alert: AG warns Medicare recipients not to divulge personal information over the phone. These callers are criminals, not Medicare agents. ... These callers are criminals, not Medicare agents ...
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection used social media the first weekend of the new year to remind residents of a phone scam targeting financial information. CBP warns against phone scam by fake ...
In early February 2017, a local British Columbia newspaper, The Delta Optimist, reported that consumers had made a "few complaints" about the calls being received in Canada. [7] On March 27, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission issued a report about the alleged scam. The agency stated that they had received consumer complaints about the ...