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2. 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.

3. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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   When you open the message, you'll see the "Official Mail" banner above the details of the message. If you get a message that seems like it's from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Certified Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you immediately mark it as spam and don't click on any links ...

4. Scammers are now sending fake toll-collection texts to get ...

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   One scam text message reviewed by Business Insider claimed to be from Massachusetts' EZdriveMA toll service. Both state services, EZdriveMA and FastTrak, say they do not send text messages to non ...

5. Messaging spam - Wikipedia

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   Messenger Service spammers frequently send messages to vulnerable Windows machines with a URL. The message promises the user to eradicate spam messages sent via the Messenger Service. The URL leads to a website where, for a fee, users are told how to disable the Messenger service. Though the Messenger is easily disabled for free by the user ...

6. Use AOL Certified Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

   help.aol.com/articles/what-is-aol-certified-mail

   When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details. When you get a message that seems to be from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Official Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.

7. Email spoofing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing

   Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. [1] The term applies to email purporting to be from an address which is not actually the sender's; mail sent in reply to that address may bounce or be delivered to an unrelated party whose identity has been faked.