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2. Beware of These 11 Instagram Scams in 2024 - AOL

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   Scam: Fake Brand Accounts. The FTC release stated that online shopping scams make up 44% of all fraud reports during the first half of 2023. The victim will click on an ad on social media and then ...

3. 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.

4. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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   Carding (fraud) Carding refers not only to payment card based fraud, but also to a range of related activities and services. Carding is a term of the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. [1] The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [2]

5. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".

6. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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   An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. 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. [1] [2] If a victim makes the payment, the ...

7. Report abuse or spam on AOL - AOL Help

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   Report abuse or spam on AOL - AOL Help. aol support at. 1-800-358-4860. Get live expert help with your AOL needs—from email and passwords, technical questions, mobile email and more.

8. Package redirection scam - Wikipedia

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   Package redirection scam. A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide ...

9. Scammers are swiping billions from Americans every year ... - AOL

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   A 74-year-old woman recently charged with robbing a credit union north of Cincinnati was the victim of an online scam, according to her family. Authorities say they believe the woman was preyed on ...