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  2. 6 Fast and Free Ways To Safeguard Your Money From Fraud and Scams

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    Foreclosure or mortgage relief scams. Grandparent scams. Imposter scams. Lottery and prize scams. Mail fraud. Man-in-the-middle scams. Money mule scams. Money transfer/mobile payment scams ...

  3. 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.

  4. Scam letters - Wikipedia

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    Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...

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

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    Officials are warning Sedgwick County residents about unsolicited scam mail that looks like it came from the county recorder of deeds office. The letters, received by several residents in January ...

  7. 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.

  8. Pigeon drop - Wikipedia

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    Shredded paper, which has been used as a decoy for cash in this scam [1]. The pigeon drop or Spanish handkerchief or Chilean handkerchief is a confidence trick in which a mark, or "pigeon", is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object.

  9. Drop swindle - Wikipedia

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    The drop swindle was a confidence trick commonly used during the 19th and 20th centuries. Employing a variety of techniques the con usually consists of the "dropper", who purposely drops a wallet containing counterfeit money near a potential victim.