When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

   help.aol.com/articles/identify-legitimate-aol...

   • 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 letters - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_letters

   Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...

4. BEWARE: Publishers Clearing House doesn't ask winners ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/news/beware-publishers-clearing...

   Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes are legitimate, however, scammers have honed in on a way to manipulate money out of the masses by misusing the company's name. "They call and tell you that ...

5. List of scams - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scams

   The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...

6. Did you get an unsolicited $199 ‘check’ in the mail? Don’t ...

   www.aol.com/did-unsolicited-199-check-mail...

   Officials are warning Sedgwick County residents about unsolicited scam mail that looks like it came from the county recorder of deeds office. The letters, received by several residents in January ...

7. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

   help.aol.com/articles/protect-yourself-from...

   Any info these scammers gain by sending you this info will make it easier for them to hack not only your email account, but any other account you have online. What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info.

8. AAA warns of scam emails and texts targeting members. What ...

   www.aol.com/aaa-warns-scam-emails-texts...

   You can also report texting scam attempts to your wireless service provider by forwarding unwanted texts to 7726 or "SPAM." Emily Barnes is the New York State Team consumer advocate reporter for ...

9. Lottery scam - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_scam

   Another type of lottery scam is a scam email or web page where the recipient had won a sum of money in the lottery. The recipient is instructed to contact an agent very quickly but the scammers are just using a third party company, person, email or names to hide their true identity, in some cases offering extra prizes (such as a 7 Day/6 Night Bahamas Cruise Vacation, if the user rings within 4 ...