☎️ Scam Alert 🚨

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Medicare Scam

TRANSCRIPT
Your patient advocate this is a message for all patients on Medicare we have tried numerous times to contact you through the mail and now by telephone regarding your eligibility for a new cancer screening test that would help you detect certain cancers that you may be predisposed to this is your final notice for the state of the art test which is a benefit of your insurance press one to speak to me or one of our testing specialist or press one to be placed on our do not call list.

[virgogal]

1. Could be a scam,could be just a sales pitch. I ignore them all.

[Shrike47]

2. AARP bulletin has an article about these DNA testing calls. They bilk Medicare.

They may also use your Medicare number to bill for other services, not rendered.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Has all the hallmarks of a scam. It provides no name of the advocate, nor the company that the

advocate represents. Words like "final notice," "advocate," "Medicare," "a benefit of your ...." are manipulative and induce anxiety. Not a good idea to even press the key for the do not call list as it indicates to them that your phone number is a live and active one.

[Archae]

4. I keep getting these e-mails...

Did you have cancer?

Were you at least 1,000 miles of any Roundup?

Then hop on our bandwagon to get lots of money!
Our sheister lawyers will sue over anything!

[Grammy23]

5. We get the same sales pitch but it is for back braces.

These messages are left on our answering machine as we never answer calls from numbers we do not recognize. The caller claims it is our final notice (we wish!) and if we don’t call back we’ll be declared ineligible by Medicare to get this brace in the future. So in other words, call back quickly!
Then they give the directive to press one to speak to a representative or three to be placed on the do not call list.

The part about being our final notice is complete BS. We’ve received this call or something similar dozens of times. I think there is a way to block it on our phone (bundled with our cable/internet service), but I have not figured it out yet. Also, they just switch to another number....clever rats that they are.

My husband’s step father responded to a similar call and went to a local doctor to get fitted for a brace. It never fit right, he couldn’t get any help about it and his insurance (Tricare) got billed a huge amount for it. It was never resolved. And he has a useless brace. So be warned.