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2. Homeowners Beware: New Scam Letters Circulating in ... - AOL

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   The Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland attorney general's (AG) office is warning consumers about home warranty scam letters addressed to homeowners. The division emphasized that these...

3. Did you get an unsolicited $199 ‘check’ in the mail? Don’t ...

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   This is an example of what a local official says is a scam letter trying to convince people to buy a home warranty. Personal information from the homeowner, which was included in the letter, has ...

4. Straight Talk: Handle mail from mortgage company carefully - AOL

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   BBB Scam Alert: This solicitation looks like a notice about your mortgage. Here’s how to spot it. If you get an unexpected letter from your mortgage company, look closely!

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. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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   In the past, before the introduction of electronic communications, scam letters were posted by normal postal services, which had been a slow and tedious method of defrauding victims. Although this method tremendously decreased its appearance today, it still occurs that a victim might receive the posted scam letter.

7. Scam baiting - Wikipedia

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   For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...

8. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   A variation of this scam occurs in countries where insurance premiums are generally tied to a bonus–malus rating: the con artist will offer to avoid an insurance claim, settling instead for a cash compensation. Thus, the con artist is able to evade a professional damage assessment, and get an untraceable payment in exchange for sparing the ...

9. FCC warns of 50-state scam by fraudsters posing as mortgage ...

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   "Today's actions both warn consumers of this latest set of scams, and put on notice all other voice service providers to immediately stop carrying these junk calls," Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel ...