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2. 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.

3. Top 5 scam phone numbers in the US - AOL

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   The list is based on the number of complaints about scam calls from each number and in each area code. The five most popular area codes for scammers in 2024 were 720 in north-central Colorado, 272 ...

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

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   Scammers know how to fake a phone number. Kerskie describes a scam where a client received a spoof call from what he thought was his daughter’s phone. The caller claimed his daughter was in ...

5. This is why you should never call back an unknown number - AOL

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   You’d probably ignore an 800 number, but a number that comes from your hometown seems more likely to be someone you know. “People are curious and they’re counting on that,” says Levin.

6. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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   A variant is a call forwarding scam, where a fraudster tricks a subscriber into call forwarding their number to either a long-distance number or a number at which the fraudster or an accomplice is accepting collect calls. The unsuspecting subscriber then gets a huge long-distance bill for all of these calls. [3]

7. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. 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.

9. Misdialed call - Wikipedia

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   A misdialed call or wrong number is a telephone call or text message to an incorrect telephone number.This may occur because the number has been physically misdialed, the number is simply incorrect, or because the area code or ownership of the number has changed.