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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. Scam alert: Report shows which companies are ... - AOL

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   Impersonation scams, where someone pretends to be with a popular company or government agency, are getting worse. Scam alert: Report shows which companies are impersonated the most Skip to main ...

4. Scam baiting - Wikipedia

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   For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...

5. List of scams - Wikipedia

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   The business then receives inflated invoices for unsolicited copy paper, copy machine toner, cleaning supplies, light bulbs, trash bags or other supplies, using the name of the person who answered the call to falsely claim this person ordered the items. When the business objects, the workers are threatened with lawsuits or harassed by bogus ...

6. Phishing - Wikipedia

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   Another popular approach to fighting phishing is to maintain a list of known phishing sites and to check websites against the list. One such service is the Safe Browsing service. [ 109 ] Web browsers such as Google Chrome , Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Safari 3.2, and Opera all contain this type of anti-phishing measure.

7. Adblock Plus - Wikipedia

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   Adblock Plus (ABP) is a free and open-source [11] [12] browser extension for content-filtering and ad blocking.It is developed by Eyeo GmbH, a German software company.The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox (including mobile), [13] Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, and Android.