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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.
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“An Amazon email scam can look exactly like a real Amazon email, or can be poorly crafted, and everything in between,” according to Alex Hamerstone, a director with the security-consulting ...
On February 3, 2009, the Internet Crime Complaint Center issued a warning on this scam. [83] A legitimate company that occasionally sends prepayment for large transactions says "We do occasionally fund upfront for very large spend purchases but we use cheques or direct bank transfers which should mean you can see when they are cleared and so ...
A reverse rollover is when you transfer funds from an IRA into a 401(k). Ask the experts: I just started a new a job with a great 401(k) plan. Would a reverse rollover from my IRA make sense?
Indirect rollover: In an indirect rollover, a worker requests a cash withdrawal from the retirement account and then moves the money themselves, but must do so within 60 days, the so-called 60-day ...
Lincoln Savings was seized by federal authorities the day following American Continental's bankruptcy filing. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] This total came to about $285 million, largely because such investors held securities backed by the parent company rather than deposits in the federally insured institution, a distinction apparently lost on many if ...
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.