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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. Image credits: Kahzgul #12. Crystals. I love crystals.. in a geological way. But they don’t heal s**t. Slow down. Sit down. Ask yourself some basic, common sense questions about the offer.

  4. New Hotel Phishing Scam — Be Careful If You’re Offered a ...

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    You’ve made your flight plans and booked your hotel but are less than thrilled about how much you had to pay for your upcoming vacay. More: 8 Tips to Fly Business Class for the Price of Economy

  5. People are losing more money to scammers than ever before ...

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    With the help of technology, scammers are tricking Americans out of more money than ever before. In 2022, reported consumer losses to fraud totaled $8.8 billion — a 30 percent increase from 2021 ...

  6. List of hoaxes - Wikipedia

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    The Cardiff Giant, a hoax of a hoax; P. T. Barnum had a replica made because he could not obtain the "genuine" hoax item. The CERN ritual , a supposed occult sacrifice on the grounds of CERN . China Under the Empress Dowager , co-authored by Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet using a forged diary as a major source, with a manuscript of Backhouse ...

  7. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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    Investigating reports of the supposed scam, Snopes noted that all purported scam targets only reported being victimized after hearing about the scam in news reports. Snopes had contacted the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Federation of America, none of whom could provide evidence of an individual having been financially defrauded after receiving one of ...

  8. Stresser - Wikipedia

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    They have simple front ends, and accept payment over the web. Marketed and promoted as stress-testing tools, they can be used to perform unauthorized denial-of-service attacks, and allow technically unsophisticated attackers access to sophisticated attack tools. [2]

  9. Consumers Call Out Recent Reese’s $25,000 Contest as Scam ...

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    A new $25,000 giveaway by The Hershey Company is coming under scrutiny for possible violations of state and federal sweepstakes law. The contest is being promoted on packs of Reese's Peanut Butter...