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2. Victims of online dating scams speak out on what they’ve ...

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   They say love is blind. And now scammers are banking on it. Romance scams — a type of con in which online fraudsters lead a person on with talk of romance (typically in the form of manipulative ...

3. Romance scam - Wikipedia

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   Because the scammers are working in groups, someone in the group can be online and available to send e-mail or text messages to the victim at any hour. [5] The rotation between different scammers, all claiming to be the same person, is difficult to detect in text-based messages, whereas it would be obvious if a different person showed up for a ...

4. Voter registration scams are now everywhere. Here's how to ...

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   August 11, 2024 at 11:07 AM. Scams asking people for personal information to fix their voter registration are rising. Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images. Officials are warning about voter ...

5. Ohio Turnpike text scam asks motorists for toll payments ...

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   The text message scam is referred to as "smishing," a combination of SMS (short message service) and phishing (scammers claiming to be representatives of an organization).

6. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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   Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations. Email fraud can take the form of a confidence ...

7. 4 Election Donation and Identity Scams To Avoid - AOL

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   Here are four types of donation and identity scams to look out for and some ways to protect yourself, according to experts. 1. Robocalls and Text Messages. Speaking to AARP, Dan Evon, senior ...

8. Text messaging - Wikipedia

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   Harding and Rosenberg (2005) argue that the urge to forward text messages can be difficult to resist, describing text messages as "loaded weapons". [ 139 ] Apple 's messaging app, Messages , uses Apple's Internet-based messaging service, iMessage , to send messages to other iMessage users, and uses SMS as a fallback when no data connection is ...

9. That text message about your unpaid tolls may be a scam

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   Even if you have outstanding fees, that text message about unpaid tolls may be a scam. The FBI issued a public service announcement warning people to be careful handling those messages.. Since ...