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  2. 5 Texting Scams You Must Avoid at All Costs - AOL

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    During a PayPal scam, scammers send text messages claiming to be from PayPal to alert you that there is an issue with your account. You will be prompted to either call a phone number or click a ...

  3. Sick of those scam text messages? What you can do - AOL

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    If you get a package scam text, here is how you can report it: Without clicking on the web link, copy the body of the suspicious text message and paste into a new email.

  4. Is this text a scam? What to do when a debt collection text ...

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    Use your best judgement. If someone insists that payment is due immediately, uses threats or harassment, or asks you to pay by an untraceable method like a wire transfer, it could be a scam.

  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. ESL Federal Credit Union warns members of text scam ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. Binary-coded decimal - Wikipedia

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    To represent the sign of a number in BCD, the number 0000 is used to represent a positive number, and 1001 is used to represent a negative number. The remaining 14 combinations are invalid signs. To illustrate signed BCD subtraction, consider the following problem: 357 − 432. In signed BCD, 357 is 0000 0011 0101 0111.

  8. Mobile phone spam - Wikipedia

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    Another approach to reducing SMS spam that is offered by some carriers involves creating an alias address rather than using the cell phone's number as a text message address. Only messages sent to the alias are delivered; messages sent to the phone's number are discarded. A New York Times article provided detailed information on this in 2008. [27]

  9. No, that random text to the wrong number isn't a mistake ...

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    Wrong number scams — in which con artists send out huge batches of eye-grabbing but innocuous texts — have become the introduction du jour for scammers looking for people to bilk for money