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2. Column: They each lost almost $80,000. How to avoid becoming ...

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   The scam began with a pop-up alert about a computer virus and instructions to call a number to get the problem resolved. Read more: Column: Chase let an elderly customer wire more than $600,000 to ...

3. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   Scammer phone number lookup: Another option to determine if a phone number calling you is likely scam activity is to search for it on Google. Several websites track scam numbers, and a quick ...

4. Random Person Sent Me Money on Cash App: What Should I Do? - AOL

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   Cash App “Prize” Scam. Another type of random deposit scam on Cash App involves someone sending you a small amount of money, then contacting you to tell you the deposit is because you won a prize.

5. Lottery scam - Wikipedia

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   Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page where the recipient had won a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly but the scammers are just using a third party company, person, email or names to hide their true identity, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, if the user rings within 4 ...

6. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.

7. How To Protect Your Cash From These 11 Common Scams in 2025 - AOL

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   Phishing Scams: These scams utilize AI to create fake emails that look real, claiming to be from places like your bank, the government, digital payment services you use like PayPal or Venmo, and ...

8. Miracle cars scam - Wikipedia

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   The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.

9. 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.