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  2. What is 'smishing'? FBI warns of scam texts ... - AOL

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    The N.C. Department of Transportation and FBI suggest the following measures if you receive a scam text claiming unpaid tolls. First, they suggest filing a complaint with the Internet Crime ...

  3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    The scammer insists the site is free and the card is only for purposes of age verification. The scammer will aggressively push using the site instead of a more well-known service like Skype, Zoom, or Discord or using more rational ways to obtain age verification (such as asking to see a driver's license or passport). Typically these sites ...

  4. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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    Scam phone numbers and area codes typically involve calls you receive from numbers you don’t recognize. ... Package Delivery Scams. This scam starts with a text message or voicemail saying you ...

  5. 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.

  6. AI voice scams are on the rise. Here's how to protect yourself.

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    Phone numbers also can be spoofed to mimic those of callers known to the target of voice cloning scams. In 2023, senior citizens were conned out of roughly $3.4 billion in a range of financial ...

  7. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.

  8. Clickbait - Wikipedia

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    Clickbait (also known as link bait or linkbait) [2] is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow ("click") that link and view, read, stream or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading.

  9. SIM swap scam - Wikipedia

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    A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, [1] simjacking, and SIM swapping) [2] is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.