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Don't Call the Number in the Email

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Scammers staff fake support lines too.

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If an email says to call a number about a problem, don't use that number — it may ring a scammer's call center. Look up the official contact on the company's real website and call that instead.

“The phone number in the scam email rings the scammers.”

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