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  2. Spoofing scams: How to recognize and protect yourself from ...

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    Talk to your phone company about call blocking tools and look into apps that you can download to your mobile device. ... Spoofed numbers, by their nature, are difficult to trace. If you look the ...

  3. Are You Being 'Spoofed'? This Specific Type Of Scam Is Hard ...

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    Email Spoofing Upon first glance, a spoofed email may look reliable. Scammers will often use sender addresses that look like it’s coming from a known company or authority figure.

  4. Amazon Warns Order Scams Are on the Rise After Initiating ...

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    Per ABC News, Amazon has already begun takedowns of more than 20,000 phishing websites and 10,000 phone numbers associated with business-impersonation scams. Student Loan Forgiveness Scams ...

  5. STIR/SHAKEN - Wikipedia

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    STIR/SHAKEN, or SHAKEN/STIR, is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks.Caller ID spoofing is used by robocallers to mask their identity or to make it appear the call is from a legitimate source, often a nearby phone number with the same area code and exchange, or from well-known agencies like the Internal Revenue Service or ...

  6. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

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    SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which the message is ...

  7. Ad blocking - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, both Apple and Google began to make changes to their web browsers' extension systems which encourage the use of declarative content blocking using pre-determined filters processed by the web browser, rather than filters processed at runtime by the extension. Both vendors have imposed limits on the number of entries that may be included ...

  8. The FCC is cracking down on scammy robotexts. What that ... - AOL

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    The FCC adopted a rule Thursday requiring mobile phone companies to block "highly likely to be illegal" texts, including those from non-working numbers. The FCC is cracking down on scammy ...

  9. How email spoofing can affect AOL Mail

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    Spoofing happens when someone sends emails making it look like it they were sent from your account. In reality, the emails are sent through a spoofer's non-AOL server. They show your address in the "From" field to trick people into opening them and potentially infecting their accounts and computers. Differences between hacked and spoofed