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  2. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    A "trade show" variation of a similar scam might involve a scammer pretending to have car troubles on the side of a highway, trying to hail passing vehicles. When a good Samaritan pulls over, the person claims to be a foreign citizen visiting the country to participate in some local trade show.

  3. 'This could happen to anybody': California man says a hacker ...

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    He now believes he was a victim of SIM swapping, a scam in which criminals take over your phone number. Access to his cell service wasn’t the only thing Chan says he lost. A letter shared with ...

  4. SIM swap scam - Wikipedia

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    A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, [1] simjacking, and SIM swapping) [2] is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.

  5. IDN homograph attack - Wikipedia

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    An example of an IDN homograph attack; the Latin letters "e" and "a" are replaced with the Cyrillic letters "е" and "а".The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack (sometimes written as homoglyph attack) is a method used by malicious parties to deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look ...

  6. SEC blames ‘SIM swap’ attack for disastrous X hack ... - AOL

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    While analysts predicted the decision would come on Jan. 10, the SEC's official X (formerly Twitter) account made a surprising announcement just after markets closed on Jan. 9: The agency had ...

  7. SEC blames 'SIM swap' attack for compromising X account ... - AOL

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    The SEC said Monday that a "SIM swap" attack was responsible for an unauthorized social media post that triggered market chaos and erased billions of market value in just minutes.

  8. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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    Scam letter posted within South Africa. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is a common confidence trick.The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum.

  9. Carding (fraud) - Wikipedia

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    Carding is a term of the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. [1] The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [2]