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2. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   You can call 888-382-1222 or visit DoNotCall.gov to report spam calls, telemarketers or robo-callers. Are 877 numbers spam? 877 numbers are toll-free numbers often used by businesses and ...

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

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   Scammers know that you are fielding calls from strange numbers about the health and well-being of yourself and your family – and these – criminals will use any trick to get your information ...

4. Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone ...

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   All it takes is a quick glance to know if the call is for real or not. The post Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone Numbers Guide appeared first on Reader's Digest.

5. How to identify a scam call before you're taken ... - AOL

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   809 scam. If you receive a call from a number with an 809 area code, it might appear to be coming from the United States, but it’s not. ... leading you to believe that it is someone local when ...

6. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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   A later version of the 809 scam involves calling cellular telephones then hanging up, in hopes of the curious (or annoyed) victim calling them back. [7] This is the Wangiri scam, with the addition of using Caribbean numbers such as 1-473 which look like North American domestic calls. [8]

7. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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   Example of caller ID spoofed via orange boxing; both the name and number are faked to reference leetspeak. Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station.

8. 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.

9. 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.