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  2. How to spot phishing scams and keep your info safe - AOL

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    Scammers can use your email to target you directly. And, unfortunately, plenty of email phishing scams today are more sophisticated than the older varieties that would directly ask for your ...

  3. 5 New Texting Scams To Watch Out For - AOL

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    Scammers are trying harder than ever to take advantage of unwitting victims via text message scams. According to "The RoboKiller Report: 2022 Mid-Year Phone Scam Insights," more than 147 billion...

  4. That text from the post office could be a scam. How to avoid ...

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    Scammers are using a hoax called smishing to try to deceive consumers who send packages through the mail. Experts share guidance on how you can avoid this scam. That text from the post office ...

  5. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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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.

  6. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    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 email claiming to be from AOL, but it's not marked this way, it's likely the email is fake and you should immediately delete it.

  7. How email spoofing can affect AOL Mail

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    Please be aware that unrecognized emails in your sent folder is not a sign of a spoofed account and is an indicator that your account was hacked. • Your contacts are receiving emails that you didn't send. • You receive spam emails from your own email address. • You're getting MAILER-DAEMON messages that don't match any messages you sent.

  8. Toll road scams are back: What to do if you get a text saying ...

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    A popular text message scam continues to rear its ugly head on phones across the U.S., ... (Please reply Y, then exit the text message and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link into ...

  9. Control excessive spam email - AOL Help

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    This is a tactic used by bad actors and hackers to distract you from seeing emails that really are important to you. This can also be an indication that another login account has been compromised. Why is this happening? There are many reasons why a bad actor may try to flood your inbox with emails: • To distract you from seeing an important email