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2. How to identify a scam call before you're taken advantage of

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   Microsoft has estimated that around 3.3 million people are scammed each year, leading to an annual cost of $1.5 billion and an average loss of more than $450 per individual. Recovery scam

3. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   Best practices • Don't enable the "use less secure apps" feature. • Don't reply to any SMS request asking for a verification code. • Don't respond to unsolicited emails or requests to send money.

4. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.

5. Billions of Scam Phone Calls to U.S. Consumers Are Mostly ...

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   The National Consumer Law Center says "more than a billion" scam calls go out every month to U.S. consumers and that there were more than 50 billion in 2021. But a company called First Orion ...

6. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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   Scammers know that you are fielding calls from strange numbers about the health and well-being of yourself and your family – and these – criminals will use any trick to get your information.

7. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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   Crawler devices - A majority of fraudulent calls originate from Nigerian phone scammers, who claim $12.7 billion a year off phone scams. [23] Some callers have to make up to 1000 calls per day. To help with speeding things up, they will sometimes use crawler devices which is computerized to go through every area code calling each number.