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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.
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
Some asked whether the letter was a scam (no), and others expressed outrage that it took so long to be notified that their health records and other personal information was exposed six months ago.
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The letters, received by several residents in January, contain what looks like a $199 check that purports to be a “Registration Fee Voucher” from “County Deed Records.”
Already in the nineteenth century, chain letters were known to have circulated among Muslim pilgrims going on the hajj to Mecca. Those chain letters promised blessings or curses and required replication. [2] One notorious early example was the "Prosperity Club" or "Send-a-Dime" letter.
While some legitimate emails come through this way via mailing lists and bulk senders, it also provides the means for spammers to take advantage. By switching AOL Mail's policy to reject these, we significantly impact spammers' attempts to scam our customers.
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