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  2. 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.

  3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...

  4. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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    AOL Mail is focused on keeping you safe while you use the best mail product on the web. One way we do this is by protecting against phishing and scam emails though the use of AOL Official Mail. When we send you important emails, we'll mark the message with a small AOL icon beside the sender name.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Package redirection scam - Wikipedia

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    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 a refund without the item ...

  7. Charges filed in jewelry scam reported around Alaska - AOL

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    Oct. 7—At least four people from Romania, one of them in custody, face charges connected to a jewelry sales scam that continues to target people along Alaska's road system from Fairbanks to the ...

  8. How to spot debt collection scams: 8 signs to watch out for

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    8 warning signs of a debt collector scam. Receiving a call, email or letter from a company purporting to be a debt collector can spark alarm. ... email or letter: Get contact information. Request ...

  9. Modern survival skills: How to check if a tracking ... - AOL

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    The second form of a tracking-number scam is a straightforward phishing attack. The victim receives an email or bogus text , usually claiming to be a tracking alert or a missed-delivery alert from ...