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Dec. 16—When a man in La Mesilla reported he had lost tens of thousands of dollars in an elaborate phone scam, Rio Arriba County sheriff's deputies saw a rare opportunity to catch a scammer.
• 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.
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
But, thankfully, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning cell phone users that a text message like this is likely a scam. While unpaid toll fee text scams have been around for a while, more ...
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]
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.
The Santa Fe Ring was an informal group of powerful politicians, attorneys, and land speculators in territorial New Mexico from 1865 until 1912. The Ring was composed of newly-arrived Anglo Americans and opportunistic Hispanics from long-resident and prominent families in New Mexico. Acquiring wealth, both groups realized, lay in owning or ...
There are thousands of phishing scams launched every day, according to the Federal Trade Commission, raising the risk that you'll become a victim. (Photo: Getty) (Cavan Images via Getty Images)