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AOL Mail is focused on keeping you safe while you use the best mail product on the web. One way we do this is by protecting against phishing and scam emails though the use of AOL Official Mail. When we send you important emails, we'll mark the message with a small AOL icon beside the sender name.
• 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.
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
"Always contact back via a known, official channel." Brooks adds: "The bottom line is do not click on links you do not recognize and always check the address of the email sender. Be vigilant."
"Always contact back via a known, official channel." Brooks adds: "The bottom line is do not click on links you do not recognize and always check the address of the email sender. Be vigilant."
3. Try a third-party program to help. There are a bunch of apps that can be employed to help protect you from spam or weed out spammers that already have your info.
Unsolicited Bulk Email (Spam) AOL protects its users by strictly limiting who can bulk send email to its users. Info about AOL's spam policy, including the ability to report abuse and resources for email senders who are being blocked by AOL, can be found by going to the Postmaster info page.
If you'd like to reverse the action, you can do so by going to your spam folder. Click the email, then click OK to move it into the inbox, and future messages from this sender will be delivered to the inbox. Unsubscribing When you mark a message from a mailing list as spam and we trust the sender, you will have the option to unsubscribe rather ...