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  2. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...

  3. Template:Scams and confidence tricks - Wikipedia

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  4. 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 ...

  5. 100 Most Common Money Scams and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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    Around 15% of American households fell victim to a financial scam in 2023. American consumers lost a total of $8.8 billion to fraud and scams in 2022. Scams are everywhere these days, and...

  6. Experts: How To Spot Money Scams Via Email and Text ... - AOL

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  7. Don't get taken by the mystery shopper scam - AOL

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  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. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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    Scam letter posted within South Africa. 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.