The Student Loans Company has also published advice to prevent fraud, telling students and former students to be wary of contacts seeking personal and financial details.

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Then our contacts started referring us to Russian and Korean companies seeking to conduct business in the United States.

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We are seeking to expand our economic and trade relations, and also to strengthen contacts between our citizens.

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When the shoe's on the other foot and you're seeking to reach out to your nearest and dearest, swiping right on their name in the Contacts list will initiate a call, while swiping left will start the composition of a text.

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