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2. Tech support scams are a trend. Learn how to avoid them, find ...

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   A caller who creates a sense of urgency or uses high-pressure tactics is probably a scam artist. Tips to avoid tech support fraud. ... Put your phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry ...

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   Call live aol support at. 1-800-358-4860. Get live expert help with your AOL needs—from email and passwords, technical questions, mobile email and more.

4. New ‘Phantom Hacker’ Scam: How To Protect Your Money - AOL

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   The FBI has reported that around 19,000 victims of tech-support scams sent in complaints from January to June of this year with estimated losses of over $542 million. See: 19 Dangerous Scam Phone ...

5. Tech support firms bilked consumers out of millions. These ...

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   In the first six months of 2023, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received 19,000 complaints about tech support scams with estimated losses of more than $542 million.

6. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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   Technical support scams rely on social engineering to persuade victims that their device is infected with malware. [15] [16] Scammers use a variety of confidence tricks to persuade the victim to install remote desktop software, with which the scammer can then take control of the victim's computer.

7. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

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   An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money. The scammer then attempts to convince the victim to return the difference between the ...

8. Making a living scamming the scammers - Engadget

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   It's impossible to know exactly how much money tech support scams bring in. Microsoft estimated in 2015 that in America alone, 3.3 million people would be defrauded that year, to the tune of $1.5 ...

9. FTC cracks down on internet tech support scams - Engadget

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   The Federal Trade Commission isn't letting up in its quest to rid the world of tech support scammers. Officials have launched a legal campaign, Operation Tech Trap, in a bid to crack down on ...