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  2. 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.

  3. Report abuse or spam on AOL - AOL Help

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    Unsolicited Bulk Email (Spam) AOL protects its users by strictly limiting who can bulk send email to its users. Info about AOL's spam policy, including the ability to report abuse and resources for email senders who are being blocked by AOL, can be found by going to the Postmaster info page .

  4. 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 ...

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

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    Homeowners across the U.S. are being targeted in a sophisticated scam in which callers pose as mortgage lenders to defraud people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Federal ...

  6. Preventing this insidious email forwarding scam that will ...

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    Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says business email compromise scams are a serious threat, as shown by Teresa W.'s near loss of thousands of dollars. Preventing this insidious email ...

  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. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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    Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations.

  9. Zillow scammers try to steal thousands from Oklahoma ... - AOL

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    But sometimes a deed is altered or misused in a scam. Zillow Ad In Oklahoma County, Stein said, property owners, residential or commercial, can take steps to keep a deed from being changed without ...