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2. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

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   SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which the message is ...

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.

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5. Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 - Wikipedia

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   On April 6, 2006, Congressmen Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.) introduced H.R. 5126, a bill that would have made caller ID spoofing a crime. Dubbed the "Truth in Caller ID Act of 2006", the bill would have outlawed causing "any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" via "any telecommunications service or IP-enabled ...

6. Mobile phone spam - Wikipedia

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   One of the biggest sources of SMS spam is number harvesting carried out by Internet sites offering "free" ring tone downloads. In order to facilitate the downloads, users must provide their phones' numbers; which in turn are used to send frequent advertising messages to the phone.

7. Avoid spoofing emails and spam in the AOL app

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   Recognize a spoof alert Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header, which means the message appears to be coming from somewhere other than the actual source. Use the Report button to notify AOL about spoofed email addresses, or choose It's safe to continue.

8. Additional security features in AOL Mail

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   Learn additional security features for AOL Mail. What is Spoofed Mail? When AOL Mail identifies a sender's display name (not the user name) is used with a different email address from the usual email address, a spoofed mail warning will appear at the top of the email message in yellow.

9. Telephone number verification - Wikipedia

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   User being asked to dial a number or a send a message which helps the server identify that the number is genuine and valid. With the advent of smartphones, type 0 or type 1 SMS are also being employed to send the codes which are used to verify the genuine user. Soft tokens generated within the smartphone or push messages can also be used.