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2. 3 Common Digital Transaction Scams: How You Can Avoid Them - AOL

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   TransUnion’s U.S. Consumer Pulse Q2 2023 found that over half (51%) of consumers reported being targeted with online, email, phone call or text message fraud. Nine percent of those who said they ...

3. Is that a scam? How to recognize and report fraudulent behavior

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   Scams and fraud can come in the forms of phone calls, online links, door-to-door sales and mail. Below are common scams the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs warns of. Common phone scams:

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

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   The most robust protection comes from T-Mobile’s Scam Shield. This app offers a front-line defense against scammers including free warnings of potential scam calls and the ability to block ...

5. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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   An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...

6. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   Best practices • Don't enable the "use less secure apps" feature. • Don't reply to any SMS request asking for a verification code. • Don't respond to unsolicited emails or requests to send money. • Pay attention to the types of data you're authorizing access to, especially in third-party apps.

7. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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   Scam Likely [26] is a term used for scam call identification, the term was originally coined by T-Mobile for the scam ID technology created by First Orion. [27] First Orion's scam blocking technology uses a combination of known bad actors, AI powered blocking including neighborhood spoofing and unusual calling pattern.

8. What You Need to Know About Spam Calls and 7 Ways to ... - AOL

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   According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), scam calls have ranged from offering COVID-19 test kits to selling fake cures for the virus. Other callers claim to be government employees ...

9. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   The con artist pretends to accidentally drop his wallet in a public place. After an unsuspecting victim picks up the wallet and offers it to the con artist, the scam begins. The artist accuses the victim of stealing money from the wallet and threatens to call the police, scaring the victim into returning the allegedly stolen money.