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  2. Charity scams: Check out these FBI tips before you donate - AOL

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    If you want to donate to these — or other — charities, it’s important to make sure the charity is legitimate. See: Elon Musk Gives $6 Billion to Charity in Historic Philanthropic Donation

  3. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Spoofing - used by spammers to make an email or website appear as if it's from someone you trust. • Phishing - an attempt by scammers to pose as a legitimate company or individual to steal someone's personal information, usernames, passwords, or other account information.

  4. Charity fraud - Wikipedia

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    Charity fraud, also known as a donation scam, is the act of using deception to obtain money from people who believe they are donating to a charity.Often, individuals or groups will present false information claiming to be a charity or associated with one, and then ask potential donors for contributions to this non-existent charity.

  5. List of charities accused of ties to terrorism - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of charities accused of ties to terrorism. A number of charities have been accused or convicted in court of using their revenues to fund terrorism or revolutionary movements, rather than for the humanitarian purposes for which contributions were ostensibly collected.

  6. GreatNonprofits - Wikipedia

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    GreatNonprofits is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization based in the United States with a website where donors, volunteers, and clients review and share their personal experiences with charitable organizations, essentially providing crowdsourced information about the reputability of these organizations.

  7. 4 cancer charities charged for scamming donors out of $187 ...

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    Americans give billions of dollars to charitable operations every year, but sadly not all of the recipients are legitimate. On Tuesday, charges were filed against 4 cancer charities for allegedly ...

  8. How to spot phishing scams and keep your info safe - AOL

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    Scammers can use your email to target you directly. And, unfortunately, plenty of email phishing scams today are more sophisticated than the older varieties that would directly ask for your ...

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    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. If you get an email claiming to be from AOL, but it's not marked this way, it's likely the email is fake and you should immediately delete it.