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• A comment you posted in an AOL article received at least one response or thumbs-up. • There's important activity related to your account, such as password changes or expiration of a credit card you use to pay for any AOL services.
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.
Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.
Investigating reports of the supposed scam, Snopes noted that all purported scam targets only reported being victimized after hearing about the scam in news reports. Snopes had contacted the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Federation of America, none of whom could provide evidence of an individual having been financially defrauded after receiving one of ...
In defense of the victim of the hotel phishing prepayment scam, the email offer did come from the hotel’s reservation email address. This alone made it appear to be a legitimate offer. However ...
A later version of the 809 scam involves calling cellular telephones then hanging up, in hopes of the curious (or annoyed) victim calling them back. [7] This is the Wangiri scam, with the addition of using Caribbean numbers such as 1-473 which look like North American domestic calls. [8]
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Dryve became well known locally, and between 1995 and 1996 Dryve played 90 shows in the San Diego area. [4] During this time they opened for acts such as Possum Dixon, Sonia Dada, and Jeff Buckley. [7] Their break came in 1996 after opening for Black Eyed Sceva, later known as Model Engine, at a local show. [7]