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  2. 7 Ways To Spot Catfishing Scams Before They Cost You ... - AOL

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    Catfish scam artists probably did a little bit of research, via your online profiles, to find out about you. They may know your favorite movies, TV shows, bands and so on.

  3. What is catfishing and what can you do if you are catfished?

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    In Singapore, romance scams are among the top 10 reported scams. The reported amount of money catfish may get from their victims increased by more than 30% from SGD$33.1 million (US $24 million ...

  4. Catfishing - Wikipedia

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    Similarly to a traditional Carnival celebration involving attendees masking their faces, the Internet allows catfishers to mask their true identities.. Catfishing refers to the creation of a fictitious online persona, or fake identity (typically on social networking platforms), with the intent of deception, [1] usually to mislead a victim into an online romantic relationship or to commit ...

  5. Hunting The Catfish Crime Gang - Wikipedia

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    Hunting The Catfish Crime Gang is a BBC Three television documentary. The programme is presented by James Blake and follows his investigation into a criminal network that stole his identity and used it for an online catfishing scam. During the investigation, the programme revealed that hundreds of fake social media profiles had been set up ...

  6. Social Catfish - Wikipedia

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    Social Catfish is an online investigation service based in Murrieta, California. [1] The company aims to help users avoid internet fraud like romance scams by providing online identity verification. [ 2 ]

  7. 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.

  8. Sick of those scam text messages? What you can do - AOL

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    Scammers are getting more advanced every day. From a simple text that says, "track your package with this link," to a message that promises to help pay off loans or give you a coupon code, there ...

  9. 80-year-old widower in Oregon loses $200K in catfish romance scam

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    Investigators issued a Valentine's Day warning after an elderly widower was swindled out of $200,000 by an unknown suspect he met through a dating service.