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  2. How to identify Medicare scam calls - AOL

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    Medicare scam calls are a type of identity theft. The goal of most calls is to obtain a person’s Medicare number and other sensitive information, such as bank account or Social Security numbers.

  3. How to identify a scam call before you're taken advantage of

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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. Those calls are actually originating from another country ...

  4. 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.

  5. Robocall - Wikipedia

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    The call typically begins "We're trying to reach you about your extended warranty"; it is a phishing scam intended to trick the caller into calling the provided number and then submit their credit card details to extend a non-existent warranty. Over 58 billion of these fraudulent robocalls have been made since 2021.

  6. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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    A variant is a call forwarding scam, where a fraudster tricks a subscriber into call forwarding their number to either a long-distance number or a number at which the fraudster or an accomplice is accepting collect calls. The unsuspecting subscriber then gets a huge long-distance bill for all of these calls.

  7. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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    Scam Likely [26] is a term used for scam call identification, the term was originally coined by T-Mobile for the scam ID technology created by First Orion. [27] First Orion's scam blocking technology uses a combination of known bad actors, AI powered blocking including neighborhood spoofing and unusual calling pattern.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    Best practices • Don't enable the "use less secure apps" feature. • Don't reply to any SMS request asking for a verification code. • Don't respond to unsolicited emails or requests to send money.