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  2. How to avoid college scholarship scams | College Connection

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    Discover.com offers a scholarship database that includes 4 million scholarships that are collectively worth over $22 billion. College Board’s BigFuture website offers a scholarship quiz to match ...

  3. How to Avoid Scholarship Scams

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    As college costs rise, scholarship scams employed by predatory companies continue to target prospective students and their families. A student searching for scholarships to help pay for college ...

  4. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Don't use internet search engines to find AOL contact info, as they may lead you to malicious websites and support scams. Always go directly to AOL Help Central for legitimate AOL customer support. • Never click suspicious-looking links. Hover over hyperlinks with your cursor to preview the destination URL.

  5. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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    According to news reports on the alleged scam, victims of the purported fraud receive telephone calls from an unknown person who asks, "Can you hear me?" The victim's response of "Yes" is recorded and subsequently used to make unauthorized purchases in the victim's name. More specifically, some experts suggest scammers may be looking to record ...

  6. 4 Signs a College Scholarship Is Actually a Scam

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    Applying for college scholarships can help offset the cost of higher education, and there are a seemingly endless number of companies and organizations offering scholarships to students. While ...

  7. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    Get-rich-quick schemes. Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and ...

  8. Facebook real-name policy controversy - Wikipedia

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    Facebook 's notification to "update your name". The Facebook real-name policy controversy is a controversy over social networking site Facebook 's real-name system, which requires that a person use their legal name when they register an account and configure their user profile. [1] The controversy stems from claims by some users that they are ...

  9. Scholarship fraud: Welcome to the School of Hard Knocks

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    Since 1996, there have been eight federally recognized scholarship scam cases in. More than 175,000 known victims of scholarship fraud exist in the U.S. -- and the Federal Trade Commission wants ...