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  2. How to identify a fake text message: Online skills 101 - AOL

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    Frequently impersonated businesses and government agencies, including Amazon, Netflix, PayPal, the IRS, the SSA, and the USPS, all have pages with spam text message examples or explain common scam ...

  3. Who's really behind that random strange text from nowhere? - AOL

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    For instance, you receive a text from +1-555-123-4567, a number not in your contacts. Unsolicited contact: The text arrives unexpectedly, often with a friendly or urgent tone. Example: "Hey! Long ...

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

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    Scammers are getting more advanced every day. From a simple text that says, "track your package with this link," to a message that promises to help pay off loans or give you a coupon code, there ...

  5. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    A sizable amount of scams are on Roblox, largely revolving around messages promoting websites and games that are designed to appear to give out free Robux. [23] Furthermore, there are people in the community known as "beamers" who compromise Roblox accounts to steal and sell their items on the platforms black markets.

  6. Scam baiting - Wikipedia

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    For scams conducted via written communication, baiters may answer scam emails using throwaway email accounts, pretending to be receptive to scammers' offers. [4]Popular methods of accomplishing the first objective are to ask scammers to fill out lengthy questionnaires; [5] to bait scammers into taking long trips; to encourage the use of poorly made props or inappropriate English-language ...

  7. Zalgo text - Wikipedia

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    The sentence "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents", in Zalgo textZalgo text is generated by excessively adding various diacritical marks in the form of Unicode combining characters to the letters in a string of digital text. [4]

  8. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

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    When you open the message, you'll see the "Official Mail" banner above the details of the message. 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 ...

  9. If you get these texts, delete them immediately - AOL

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    A new text message scam has been making its way around the country. People have reported receiving messages saying: [Name], we came across a parcel/package from [a recent month] pending for you.