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2. 6 Investment Scam Red Flags and How To Avoid Them - AOL

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   Report the scam. If you feel you’ve been taken advantage of by an investment scam, contact your local banking institution to go over how to best protect and recover your personal finance ...

3. Investment scams are everywhere on social media. Here's ... - AOL

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   Social media is full of scammers promising guaranteed returns on investment, and consumers lost billions of dollars to them last year. Troy Gochenour, 50, of Columbus, Ohio, was conned out of ...

4. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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   In early 2019, in the Kapa investment scam, the Philippine government shut down Kapa-Community Ministry International and its self-declared pastor, Joel Apolinario. [citation needed] In January 2020, the SEC filed a federal case against a Californian couple, Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, charging them of organizing a $910 million Ponzi scheme.

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. AI 'deepfake' videos make investment scams harder to spot as ...

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   The videos are being used in investment scams, such as romance swindles, and in other ways. ... Another is the "grandparent" scam where potential victims are asked for bail money to free a ...

7. Affinity fraud - Wikipedia

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   Affinity fraud is a form of investment fraud in which the fraudster preys upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, language minorities, the elderly, or professional groups. The fraudsters who promote affinity scams frequently are – or successfully pretend to be – members of the group.