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2. Identity Theft Awareness Week: Top 15 financial scams ... - AOL

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   Financial scams are among the most common crimes out there, and seniors are taking the brunt of it. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and ...

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

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   The good news is that scams operate in many known area codes, so you can avoid being the next victim simply by honing in on the list of scammer phone numbers. Read Next: 6 Unusual Ways To Make ...

4. How to spot a scam online - AOL

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   And whatever you do, don’t send cash, gift cards, or money transfers. You can report scam phone calls to the FTC Complaint Assistant. Online scam No. 4: "Tech support” reaches out to you ...

5. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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   Crawler devices - A majority of fraudulent calls originate from Nigerian phone scammers, who claim $12.7 billion a year off phone scams. [23] Some callers have to make up to 1000 calls per day. To help with speeding things up, they will sometimes use crawler devices which is computerized to go through every area code calling each number.

6. 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.

7. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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   Can you hear me?" is a question asked in an alleged telephone scam, sometimes classified as an internet hoax. [1] There is no record of anyone having ever been defrauded in such a scam, according to the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Federation of America. Reports of the supposed scam began circulating in ...

8. Area code 409 - Wikipedia

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   Area code 409 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Texas. The numbering plan area comprises the Beaumont and Galveston areas. It was created on March 19, 1983, in an area code split of area code 713 , the first since 619 split from 714 four months earlier.

9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail , if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail , if it's an important account email.