I know it would be easier if AOL could (or would) take care of this; but there is a simple way to tell if the email is legit. If you hover your mouse over the "From" address (in this case AOL Team) the actual email address will pop up (in this case jasmith69@verizon.net). As you can see, this is from someone on Verison.net. It should say @aol.com. This is something everyone should do; with every email they get. The sender can put anything they want in the "From" line, but if you put your pointer over it, it will show you the true sender.

Same thing. They forwarded all my emails to hattner1@gmail.com and sent all of my emails to go to SPAM & Trash. This is not an email of mine. I finally had to figure out how to fix it myself. I stayed on hold for the help desk forever and was told they couldn't help me. Said the email was in my husband's name and he has never even used it. Of course he was out of the country too.

I received the same email yesterday about closing all old versions of Mailbox and have not clicked on the blue tab either. I've noticed some grammatical errors in the email. It said my account will be closed and so far not.

I have received this "We are closing all old version of Mailbox as of today....." Do not want to click on link without direction this is from YOU. Don

New year, new scam. received 1/4/22. Check out the email address it's coming from if there is a doubt it's a scam. Of course I didn't click on it.

Subject:Mail Validation
From: AoIMaiI <sixwicket@aol.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2022 7:51 am
AOLMAIL

Prior to AOL Agreement

"Starting on January 5th, 2022, Customers who have not updated their email account will no longer be able to log in to their Mailbox.

Customers are required* to Verify their email address to Proceed

Kindly use the link below to re-login and verify now!

CLICK HERE TO VERIFY NOW

Thanks
AOL.

Got this today. I assume it is spam.
AOL--N . O . T . I . C . E (joseph193@verizon.net)
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AOL Mail Password Center!
Your AOL Mail Password has expired and must be validated, as you want to continue with the current Password.

Keep Same Password

w© 2021 AOL corporation

Verify your email address
Dear %0%

Your Email account will be shut down within 24hours due to excessive storage usage.
To continue using our email services you are to use this Link to increase your Mail Storage
Failure to Upgrade your email account will automatically DISABLE your email service.
Thanks,
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got message last week .. clicked on button it was a hack... Cost me 2 days phone calls and time to fix problem... now 2 days later you come out with another button to push? Tired of your fixes being our problem.. not pushing NO MORE BUTTONS

Got message to update aol account. did now hacked all contacts gone. they have been receiving fake emails from me to get money... seems like you would be able to at least stop fake aol messages. So sorta filter

I have been getting many emails over the past month or two similar to the one posted. It's quite annoying. You should find a way to filter these out. Here is the latest:

Important Notification.
Wed, Dec 22, 2021 7:51 am
Verizon Mail Team. (resx2whb@verizon.net)
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Verizon Mail Notification

Hi Verizon Users,

Your Verizon mail version is out of date and has expired. You are advised to verify your account below and activate the new mail version to avoid disconnection.

VERIFY HERE

Failure to upgrade to the newest Verizon mail version within 24-hours will result in permanent account closure.
According to provision of our Terms and Conditions, Verizon may at any time terminate its service for accounts.

Please Visit Its Help-Desk Here to verify your mailbox.

This is a Phishing email. It sent 90+ emails which came back into my Trash folder. All incoming email comes to the Trash folder now. Composed messages make an error when sent.

Aol (b3drecon@verizon.net)
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Dear AOL User ,

Your incoming mails were placed on pending status due to the recent upgrade to our database.

To renew your mailbox:

Click Here

Failure to validate might leave your account vulnerable to Spam attacks and suspension will follow within 72hrs.

Thanks for choosing
Privacy Policy | Customer Support
©2021 Aol Media. All Rights Reserved.

Can you stop the above? I got the same thing today. Did not click on it.
Mpibob@aol.com

As noted elsewhere in these comments, do not click on the link in that email and more importantly do not put your aol login info into the real looking AOL sign in page that the email link takes you to (likely something that would end with Weebly dot com). Pretty sure putting your info in that page sends your AOL creds to hackers and then they take over your account and use your account to send the same email to everyone in your address book. If you entered your info on that page my advice would be to change your password immediately. You can also check your AOL account settings for the "Recent Activity" to see if unexpected locations have signed in to your account. Here is some hopefully helpful additional info if you were hacked. While signed in to AOL mail through a web browser, there should be an "options" drop down in the top right corner. Click on the drop down and select mail settings. Then in the menu on the left select filter settings. Make sure a filter has not been set up to direct your mail to a different folder than the inbox. ALSO in the same menu that has the filter settings, click on the "recent activity" menu and follow the link to make sure you do not see unexpected locations signed in to your account. If you do see someone from another country or location signed in, change your password, you have likely been hacked. Also from the regular email page, you may be able to click on the contacts menu on the left, and then in the top center of the page use the more menu to restore contacts if they have been deleted. It would be great if there was actually an official AOL/Yahoo/Verizon? email that would be sent out to alert people to this hacking scheme and warn them so more people do not fall victim.

up dated the account ND LOST MY email now they want me to pay to get it back **** U AOL

**** AOHell for not protecting users from AOL Scammers. Who do they think they are Facebook, "sponsoring" paid ads by KNOWN SCAMMERS.

-----Original Message-----
From: AOL Inc. <licy75@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 6, 2021 11:59 am
Subject: New Version Update

Dear AOL User,

Due to the recent update on Our AOL server we are closing all old versions of AOL Email accounts from December 7th 2021 . You are required to upgrade your Email account due to our ongoing maintenance to avoid Temporary lock of your Mailbox.

Please follow the link below to update your account :

New version

Thank You. Please do not reply to this message. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
© 2021 All rights reserved.

I had to change my password 3 times last 3 days because of hackers
latest is dorthybrodsky@aol.com. Procecute her.

I have received the following email message from 2 different senders both with a .aol account. I believe them to be spam but can not find a way of contacting AOL directly to find out. Judging from the amount of messages from other users in this thread, I am not alone. Please can you give some official response to these intrusive phishing attempts using the AOL name? Here's the example I received.

(lautrepas@aol.com)
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Hello Member,

Due to our new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy we will be closing all email accounts using our old services. This simply means your email account will be discontinued {Closed} after 5th December, 2021.



As part of our integration activities and to improve our services to you, In June of last year, AOL teamed up with Yahoo to become one company, called Oath. If you wish to continue using our email services please accept our new terms to avoid email closure.


You can learn more about our New Terms by clicking link below

TERMS AND POLICY

Aol Mail Service.

AOL +++ I am getting this too. Your BLUE AOL logo is not on the INBOX like I understand need to be there to prove that AOL actually sent it. Also View Message source said mreid121@aol.com. I am not going to go any further with it unless the BLUE AOL LOGO is there. Just got email from you and it had the blue logo / you where asking me if I just posted here. I recently went to another similar type of Email & someone contacted everyone in my contact list saying that I need help please send money / that is when I found out about the BLUE LOGO. THANK YOU

I also got this message! Plus I'm receiving all my incoming mail in my "recently deleted" mail box instead of my "new mail". I've tried everything to correct this.

Received today 11/11
Aol Admin woswald@buckeye-express.comHide
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AOL
Hi Aol Member,
The Classic Version of Mailbox will be replaced by our new version. So, You can not send or receive new files until you re-validate it's time to verify, before you lose your email access. please click below.

Log-in Restore

I have received this email 2 days in a row. Please advise as what to do.
Thank you,
coll1225ban@aol.com