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  2. Social Snafu: Twitter Verifies a Scam Verge Cryptocurrency ...

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    Getting verified is a status symbol on Jack Dorsey’s social media site, but the scams that are being left unchecked, so to speak, Social Snafu: Twitter Verifies a Scam Verge Cryptocurrency ...

  3. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Is that a scam? How to recognize and report fraudulent behavior

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    Charity scams: someone claiming to collect money for charity and then keeping the cash. Common mail scams: Lottery scams: being asked to pay a fee to claim lottery winnings.

  5. Twitter smarts will help you avoid this Draw Something scam - AOL

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    The funny thing about scammers is, 90 percent of the time, they hide in plain sight. For instance, Sophos's security blog Naked Security reports that a scammers have taken to Twitter to scam Draw ...

  6. Scam - Wikipedia

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    It typically aims to rob the victim of his money or other valuables that they carry on their person or are guarding. [2] A long con or big con (also, chiefly in British English, long game) [3] is a scam that unfolds over several days or weeks; it may involve a team of swindlers, and even props, sets, extras, costumes, and scripted lines. It ...

  7. Hoax - Wikipedia

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    The Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is the writer Virginia Woolf.. A hoax (plural: hoaxes) is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either malicious or humorous intent of causing shock and interest in as many people as possible.

  8. The Bitcoin scam that hit Twitter could have been way worse - AOL

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    On Thursday afternoon, all hell broke loose on Twitter. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and Jeff Bezos all appeared to be participating. Instead, it seems that a Twitter insider ...

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...