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  2. Advance-fee scam - Wikipedia

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    An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [ 1 ][ 2 ] If a victim makes the payment, the ...

  3. An alarming spike in scam calls originating from robocalls - AOL

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    4. Report the call: Report any robocalls to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or your country’s equivalent authority. The more reports they get, the better they can target these scams. 5. Add ...

  4. Malicious caller identification - Wikipedia

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    The call trace is not dependent upon call duration (as envisioned in dramatic movie plots) and will record all meta-data regardless of source conditions - even if the call was made from an unlisted number, a payphone or a number with caller identification disabled. To protect privacy the resulting trace data is only made available to law ...

  5. Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 - Wikipedia

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    Barr v. American Assn. of Political Consultants, Inc., No. 19-631, 591 U.S. ___ (2020) The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1991 and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush as Public Law 102-243. It amended the Communications Act of 1934. The TCPA is codified as 47 U.S.C. § 227.

  6. The mystery behind those creepy 'Unknown' spam calls - AOL

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    The mystery behind these creepy 'Unknown' spam calls often begins with data breaches or information leaks. Scammers obtain partial information from various sources, including public records ...

  7. How to stop robocalls and spam calls for good - AOL

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    By the way, you should never call back an unknown number—here’s why. Use robocall-blocking apps “Two I’ve used with success have been Mr. Number and Hiya.

  8. Voice phishing - Wikipedia

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    Voice phishing. Voice phishing, or vishing, [1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use modern ...

  9. This is why you should never call back an unknown number - AOL

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    You could be opening the door to scammers.