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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. Use AOL Certified Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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   When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details. When you get a message that seems to be from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Official Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.

4. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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   If you get a message that seems like it's from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Certified Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you immediately mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.

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6. Disposable email address - Wikipedia

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   Ideally, owners share a DEA once with each contact or entity. Thus, if the DEA should ever change, only one entity needs to be updated. By comparison, the traditional practice of giving the same email address to multiple recipients means that if that address subsequently changes, many legitimate recipients need to receive notification of the change and update their records — a potentially ...

7. Address munging - Wikipedia

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   Address munging is the practice of disguising an e-mail address to prevent it from being automatically collected by unsolicited bulk e-mail providers. [1] Address munging is intended to disguise an e-mail address in a way that prevents computer software from seeing the real address, or even any address at all, but still allows a human reader to reconstruct the original and contact the author ...