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  2. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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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. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications. Scammers and bad actors are always looking for ways to get personal info with malicious intent.

  3. Add or disable 2-step verification for extra security - AOL Help

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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. Add or disable 2-step verification for extra security. Add an extra security step to sign into your account with 2-step verification. Find out how to turn on 2-step verification and receive a ...

  4. Telephone number verification - Wikipedia

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    Telephone number verification. Telephone number verification (or validation) services are online services used to establish whether a given telephone number is in service. They may include a form of Turing test to further determine if a human answers or answering equipment such as a modem, fax, voice mMail or answering machine .

  5. SIM swap scam - Wikipedia

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    A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, [ 1] simjacking, and SIM swapping) [ 2] is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.

  6. Account verification - Wikipedia

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    A telephone number can be provided when creating or verifying an account or added to an account to obtain a set of features. During the process of verifying a telephone number, a confirmation code is sent to a phone number specified by a user, for example in an SMS message sent to a mobile phone. As the user receives the code sent, they can ...

  7. Why am I asked to verify my account after signing in?

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    Please review your account settings and recovery methods from time to time, and especially prior to changing phone numbers or other email addresses, to help ensure you can always access your account!

  8. Scammers now using verification codes to hijack phone numbers

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    Scammers now using verification codes to hijack phone numbers. August 26, 2021 at 6:28 PM. A new scam tries to use your phone number to scam others, and you could be at risk if you post your ...

  9. SMS - Wikipedia

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    SMS. An SMS message written on a Motorola Razr V3. Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile phones exchange short text messages, typically transmitted over cellular networks.