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  2. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In North America, the area served by the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) system of area codes, fictitious telephone numbers are usually of the form (XXX) 555-xxxx. The use of 555 numbers in fiction, however, led a desire to assign some of them in the real world, and some of them are no longer suitable for use in fiction.

  3. List of fact-checking websites - Wikipedia

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    Lead Stories: fact checks posts that Facebook flags but also use its own technology, called "Trendolizer", to detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news sites, satirical websites and prank generators.

  4. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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    The New York Times sent the number 111-111-1111 for all calls made from its offices until August 15, 2011. The fake number was intended to prevent the extensions of its reporters appearing in call logs, and thus protect reporters from having to divulge calls made to anonymous sources.

  5. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    Scammers and bad actors are always looking for ways to get personal info with malicious intent. Know how to recognize legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications to keep your account secure.

  6. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number...

  7. Use AOL Official Mail to confirm legitimate AOL emails

    help.aol.com/articles/what-is-official-aol-mail

    If you get a message that seems like it's from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Certified Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you immediately mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.

  8. Fake passport - Wikipedia

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    A fake passport is a counterfeit of a passport (or other travel document) issued by a nation or authorised agency. Such counterfeits are copies of genuine passports, or illicitly modified genuine passports made by unauthorized persons, sometimes called cobblers.

  9. Credit card fraud - Wikipedia

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    Credit card fraud can occur when unauthorized users gain access to an individual's credit card information in order to make purchases, other transactions, or open new accounts. A few examples of credit card fraud include account takeover fraud, new account fraud, cloned cards, and cards-not-present schemes.

  10. List of random number generators - Wikipedia

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    List of random number generators. Random number generators are important in many kinds of technical applications, including physics, engineering or mathematical computer studies (e.g., Monte Carlo simulations), cryptography and gambling (on game servers ). This list includes many common types, regardless of quality or applicability to a given ...

  11. Pseudorandomness - Wikipedia

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    In many applications, the deterministic process is a computer algorithm called a pseudorandom number generator, which must first be provided with a number called a random seed.