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  2. Column: They each lost almost $80,000. How to avoid becoming ...

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    Mrs. K., a retired educator living in the downtown L.A. area, was shopping online for a car several weeks ago when she got reeled in. The scam began with a pop-up alert about a computer virus and ...

  3. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Don't use internet search engines to find AOL contact info, as they may lead you to malicious websites and support scams. Always go directly to AOL Help Central for legitimate AOL customer support. • Never click suspicious-looking links. Hover over hyperlinks with your cursor to preview the destination URL.

  4. Watch out for this wild Southland car scam: Suspects rent ...

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    This week, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department arrested three suspects in the scheme that sold rented vehicles illegally on Facebook's popular shopping platform for used goods.

  5. Zelle Facebook Marketplace Scam: How To Recognize and Avoid ...

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    The alert warns of Zelle scams on Facebook Marketplace in which a fraudulent buyer attempts to buy a big-ticket item using Zelle, the popular peer-to-peer lending app, to make payment. See: 9 ...

  6. Package redirection scam - Wikipedia

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    A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...

  7. Clothing scam companies - Wikipedia

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    A leaflet from a commercial collecting company. Clothing scam companies are companies or gangs that purport to be collecting used good clothes for charities or to be working for charitable causes, when they are in fact working for themselves, selling the clothes overseas and giving little if anything to charitable causes. [1]

  8. Miracle cars scam - Wikipedia

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    The miracle cars scam was an advance-fee scam run from 1997 to 2002 by Californians James R. Nichols and Robert Gomez. In its run of just over four years, over 4,000 people bought 7,000 cars that did not exist, netting over US$ 21 million from the victims.

  9. California wildfires: Officials debunk online posts calling ...

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    Four active wildfires are burning through Los Angeles County, and at least 16 people have been killed because of the flames, according to a press release the county sent to USA TODAY. The fires ...