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  2. Gift card scams 2023: What to know about 'card draining' and ...

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    December 13, 2023 at 5:14 AM. With the holiday season comes more shopping and with more shopping comes more scams and fraudsters looking to take advantage of your holiday goodwill. From supposed ...

  3. Customers confused Amazon scam warning email for an ... - AOL

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    An email from Amazon warning customers to be careful of a possible gift card scam went awry when customers reported that they worried the legitimate company message might have been, itself, a scam.

  4. Gift Card Scams: What They Are and How to Avoid Them - AOL

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    The first involves trying to trick you into paying an impostor with gift cards. You may receive a phone call or text message from someone claiming to be the police, IRS, or government official ...

  5. Verizon's call filtering app now blocks area code spoofing

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    Spoofed scam calls are bad enough, ... and you can correct an accidental block by telling the app to ignore the filter for future calls. ... which includes a free $30 Amazon gift card. Engadget.

  6. What to do when the robocalls won't stop - Engadget

    www.engadget.com/2019-08-14-robocalls-how-to...

    Despite all of this, illegal robocalls still slip through. The FCC and FTC have published guidelines on how to deal with them, and here they are in a nutshell: Hang up immediately. If you engage ...

  7. FTC: Robocallers are now pretending to be Apple and Amazon

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    A new robocall scheme is using the tech giants' name to trick victims. There’s a new robocall scheme that uses Apple’s and Amazon’s name to rip people off, and the Federal Trade Commission ...

  8. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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    An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail , if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail , if it's an important account email.