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Learn how to recognize legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications to keep your account secure. Avoid scams and phishing attempts by checking the URL, sender, icons, and links of any AOL emails or notifications.
Scammer Payback, also known as Pierogi, is an American YouTuber who creates content about scam baiting against phone scams. He uses his cybersecurity expertise to infiltrate and expose the scammers' networks and locations, and has collaborated with other scambaiters such as Mark Rober and Jim Browning.
Phishing is a scam where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information or installing malware. Learn about the different types of phishing attacks, such as email, spear, voice, SMS and page hijacking, and how to prevent or detect them.
Ripoff Report is a website that allows users to anonymously complain about any firm or person, but also charges for complaint investigations and arbitration. The site has faced legal challenges and criticism for its practices, and some countries have blocked or downranked its content.
It all starts on a dating app, where men in the course of meeting a “woman” are coerced to fork over money after being told they’ve been chatting with a minor, the news release said.
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 defraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations.
The show interviews real people who have been the victims of a fraud as well as experts in the field who offer tips on how to avoid becoming a victim. The series educates and thereby protects unsuspecting victims from all sorts of scams. The show is expected to begin its second season in late 2009.
Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, is a Russian-born German national who posed as a wealthy heiress to access New York social and art scenes. She was convicted of grand larceny and theft in 2019 and deported to Germany in 2022.