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

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   How to avoid common financial scams. These tips can help you avoid getting caught up in the most common scams targeting Americans: Silence unknown numbers on your cellphone. Often scammers are ...

3. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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   Phone scams are on the rise as scammers see opportunity thanks to many Americans getting stimulus checks, an increase in concern about COVID vaccine distribution and soon, the annual tax season.

4. 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.

5. Identity Theft Awareness Week: Top 15 financial scams ... - AOL

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   The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, with the number of older Americans reporting losses of ...

6. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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   A later version of the 809 scam involves calling cellular telephones then hanging up, in hopes of the curious (or annoyed) victim calling them back. [7] This is the Wangiri scam, with the addition of using Caribbean numbers such as 1-473 which look like North American domestic calls. [8]

7. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   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.

8. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   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.

9. SIM swap scam - Wikipedia

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   A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, [1] simjacking, and SIM swapping) [2] is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.