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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. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    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.

  4. How to spot phishing scams and keep your info safe - AOL

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    April 3, 2024 at 1:02 PM. ... "If you receive a call, email or text from your credit card issuer or bank about potential fraud on your account, for example, do not address the issue based on that ...

  5. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...

  6. Straight Talk: Handle mail from mortgage company carefully - AOL

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    She gave him her debit card info where he took exactly $199.86 out on June 18 th, 2024 for this "home warranty." This scheme is similar to the extended car warranty calls.

  7. Insider threat - Wikipedia

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    Insider threat is an active area of research in academia and government. The CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie-Mellon University maintains the CERT Insider Threat Center, which includes a database of more than 850 cases of insider threats, including instances of fraud, theft and sabotage; the database is used for research and analysis. [2]

  8. Mail and wire fraud - Wikipedia

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    Mail fraud was first defined in the United States in 1872. 18 U.S.C. § 1341 provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use ...

  9. Why that blackmailer claiming to have your search history ...

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    Police are warning about a growing number of email "sextortion" scams. Scammers will claim to have compromising search history and demand crypto to keep quiet.