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2. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   What phone number can I call to report a spam call? You can call 888-382-1222 or visit DoNotCall.gov to report spam calls, telemarketers or robo-callers. Are 877 numbers spam?

3. 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.

4. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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   Now that you know what to look for, it’s time for you to learn a little bit more about scammers and how they might try to swindle you. You don’t have to give up your SSN to get scammed

5. Billions of Scam Phone Calls to U.S. Consumers Are Mostly ...

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   First Orion recently issued its "2022 Mid-Year Phone Scam Report," which estimates that U.S. consumers were on the receiving end of 101 billion scam calls during just the first half of 2022. First ...

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. [3]

7. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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   Scam Identification is a feature of the T-Mobile and Metro carrier network which can be controlled by the app Scam Shield, [28] customer care or dialing the short code #664 to turn on or off scam blocking. [29] There are a number of phone apps which try to identify, screen, send to voicemail or otherwise deter telemarketing calls with most ...

8. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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   More than 70 such phone calls were reported in 30 U.S. states. [1] A 2004 incident in Mount Washington, Kentucky led to the arrest of David Richard Stewart, a resident of Florida. Stewart was acquitted of all charges in the Mount Washington case. He was suspected of, but never charged with, having made other, similar scam calls.

9. 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.