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2. FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence ...

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   Along with prohibiting reviews written by non-humans, the FTC’s rule also forbids companies from paying for either positive or negative reviews to falsely boost or denigrate a product.

3. Social spam - Wikipedia

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   Social spam is unwanted spam content appearing on social networking services, social bookmarking sites, [1] and any website with user-generated content (comments, chat, etc.). .). It can be manifested in many ways, including bulk messages, [2] profanity, insults, hate speech, malicious links, fraudulent reviews, fake friends, and personally identifiable informa

4. A New Scam Is In Town, Title Fraud, And Real Estate Pros ...

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   FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report revealed there were 9,521 real estate-based fraud complaints in 2023, which resulted in over $145 million in losses. The fraudsters wisely ...

5. Fake news websites in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Fake news websites deliberately publish hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation to drive web traffic inflamed by social media. [8] [9] [10] These sites are distinguished from news satire as fake news articles are usually fabricated to deliberately mislead readers, either for profit or more ambiguous reasons, such as disinformation campaigns.

6. 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.

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

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   Security scams: someone offering a free home security check but may be plotting a robbery Home improvement scams: someone offers a free estimate and claims there's damage that needs to be fixed

8. Burnett v. National Association of Realtors - Wikipedia

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   Fees paid to Realtors during home sales in the United States average around 6% of the sale price, a percentage considered exceptionally high compared to rates in other developed countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. [3] [4] [5] Industry research shows that Americans pay $100 billion in commissions to real estate agents ...

9. 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 ...