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  2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Phishing - an attempt by scammers to pose as a legitimate company or individual to steal someone's personal information, usernames, passwords, or other account information. • 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 ...

  3. Are You Being 'Spoofed'? This Specific Type Of Scam Is Hard ...

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    One common tactic in a spoofing scam is to make an email address, text message, website or phone number appear like it’s the real deal. ... Drive-google.com is an insecure imitation domain, for ...

  4. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...

  5. How to spot phishing scams and keep your info safe - AOL

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    Scammers can use your email to target you directly. And, unfortunately, plenty of email phishing scams today are more sophisticated than the older varieties that would directly ask for your ...

  6. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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    Due to the widespread use of web bugs in email, simply opening an email can potentially alert the sender that the address to which the email is sent is a valid address. This can also happen when the mail is 'reported' as spam , in some cases: if the email is forwarded for inspection, and opened, the sender will be notified in the same way as if ...

  7. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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    AOL Mail is focused on keeping you safe while you use the best mail product on the web. One way we do this is by protecting against phishing and scam emails though the use of AOL Official Mail. When we send you important emails, we'll mark the message with a small AOL icon beside the sender name.

  8. Package redirection scam - Wikipedia

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    A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...

  9. Wikipedia:Phishing emails - Wikipedia

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    These emails are impersonations on legitimate emails that Wikipedia's servers send out automatically when someone registers an email address with their new account. If you received such an email immediately after registering a Wikipedia account (or linking an email address with that account through your Wikipedia preferences), then it is ...