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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.
What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.
Zazzle was launched from their garage by Robert, Bobby, and Jeffrey Beaver, and went live in 2005. [5] The company received an initial investment of US$16 million in July 2005 from Google investors John Doerr and Ram Shriram, [3] and an additional investment of US$30 million in October 2007.
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
A 2017 study of technical support scams published at the NDSS Symposium found that, of the tech support scams in which the IPs involved could be geolocated, 85% could be traced to locations in India, 7% to locations in the United States and 3% to locations in Costa Rica. [11]
Email scams posing as the Internal Revenue Service were also used to steal sensitive data from U.S. taxpayers. [58] Social networking sites are a prime target of phishing, since the personal details in such sites can be used in identity theft ; [ 59 ] In 2007, 3.6 million adults lost US$3.2 billion due to phishing attacks. [ 60 ]
The bottom line If your credit card has been used fraudulently, you have rights. Reporting credit card fraud within 30 days limits your liability and helps you get your finances in order as ...
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