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2. Sick of those scam text messages? What you can do - AOL

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   Scammers are getting more advanced every day. From a simple text that says, "track your package with this link," to a message that promises to help pay off loans or give you a coupon code, there ...

3. 5 New Texting Scams To Watch Out For - AOL

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   Scammers are trying harder than ever to take advantage of unwitting victims via text message scams. According to "The RoboKiller Report: 2022 Mid-Year Phone Scam Insights," more than 147 billion...

4. Received A Text Saying You Have Unpaid Tolls? It's Probably A ...

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   But, thankfully, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning cell phone users that a text message like this is likely a scam. While unpaid toll fee text scams have been around for a while, more ...

5. 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.

6. Messaging spam - Wikipedia

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   The message promises the user to eradicate spam messages sent via the Messenger Service. The URL leads to a website where, for a fee, users are told how to disable the Messenger service. Though the Messenger is easily disabled for free by the user, this works because it creates a perceived need and then offers an immediate solution. [citation ...

7. Mobile phone spam - Wikipedia

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   Another approach to reducing SMS spam that is offered by some carriers involves creating an alias address rather than using the cell phone's number as a text message address. Only messages sent to the alias are delivered; messages sent to the phone's number are discarded. A New York Times article provided detailed information on this in 2008. [27]