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2. Seniors, Beware of These Scams - AOL

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   Selling Anxiety. What to look out for: Scams often start with unsolicited phone calls offering products aimed at easing a person's fears. Calls such as these were at the heart of a case in which a ...

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

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   809 scam. If you receive a call from a number with an 809 area code, it might appear to be coming from the United States, but it’s not. Those calls are actually originating from another country ...

4. 10 unscrupulous scams that target senior citizens - AOL

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   Seniors offer an easy jackpot for scammers, to the tune of $3 billion in losses annually. They are often homeowners, sitting on top of savings, and in good credit. They are often homeowners ...

5. 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.

6. 12 Vile Scams That Target Seniors - AOL

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   Cryptocurrency is a popular scam right now since many seniors know so little about it. If you are offered an investment on the phone, turn it down and do your own research. Dan Shick/Wikimedia Commons

7. Identity Theft Awareness Week: Top 15 financial scams ... - AOL

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   Financial scams are among the most common crimes out there, and seniors are taking the brunt of it. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and ...