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2. Victims of online dating scams speak out on what they’ve ...

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   They say love is blind. And now scammers are banking on it. Romance scams — a type of con in which online fraudsters lead a person on with talk of romance (typically in the form of manipulative ...

3. Beware of These 11 Instagram Scams in 2024 - AOL

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   Beware of These 11 Instagram Scams in 2024. Lauren Monitz. August 9, 2024 at 4:00 PM. ©Shutterstock.com. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), $2.7 billion in wealth was lost to social ...

4. Beware of this growing dating app scam in SC, Attorney ... - AOL

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   It all starts on a dating app, where men in the course of meeting a “woman” are coerced to fork over money after being told they’ve been chatting with a minor, the news release said.

5. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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   A romance scam is a confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim, gaining the victim's affection, and then using that goodwill to get the victim to send money to the scammer under false pretenses or to commit fraud against the victim.

6. Pig butchering scam - Wikipedia

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   A scam centre in Shwe Kokko, Myanmar, where perpetrators of pig butchering scams are held against their will. Pig butchering scams originated in 2016 or earlier as a regional scam in China, originally finding their victims on same-sex dating sites before expanding to opposite-sex dating sites as well. The term "pig butchering" arises from an ...

7. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".

8. Find and remove unusual activity on your AOL account

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   Remove suspicious activity. From a desktop or mobile browser, sign in and visit the Recent activity page. Depending on how you access your account, there can be up to 3 sections. If you see something you don't recognize, click Sign out or Remove next to it, then immediately change your password. • Apps connected to your account - Apps you've ...

9. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   1-800-358-4860. Get live expert help with your AOL needs—from email and passwords, technical questions, mobile email and more. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications. Scammers and bad actors are always looking for ways to get personal info with malicious intent.