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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.
Posing as customer service representatives, scammers will try to elicit payment for activating the inoperative service — or gain permission to remotely access your smart TV.
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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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.
Scam Identification is a feature of the T-Mobile and Metro carrier network which can be controlled by the app Scam Shield, [28] customer care or dialing the short code #664 to turn on or off scam blocking. [29] There are a number of phone apps which try to identify, screen, send to voicemail or otherwise deter telemarketing calls with most ...
This scam can be seen in the movie Nights of Cabiria. Variants of these employ bots or even live people who offer to go to live cam sites to video chat with the mark. The sites almost always require a credit card to be entered. The scammer insists the site is free and the card is only for purposes of age verification.