Medicare Card Scam

[Lonestarblue]

I just received a phone call from someone claiming to be from Medicare. She asked whether I had received my new Medicare card. I told her I did not need a new card and hung up. Thought I would alert readers here who may have elderly relatives who might be susceptible to such a scam. Medicare never calls people on Medicare.

[SheltieLover]

1. I've gotten a few similar calls. As soon as they say they are from Medicare, I tell them forcefully to NEVER CALL BACK

& I hang up.

I mean, it's not as if the United States of Extortion would ever reach out to consumers.

[Historic NY]

2. There are calls everyday for back braces, bp machines, etc by scammers pretending to be medicare,

Medicare doesn't call you people, but a boiler room operations will from India.

[eShirl]

3. ask who specifically they are calling

if they don't/can't answer that, hang up

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. I have received this call a couple of times

I ask them to put a supervisor on if they are a real call. They hang up.

[Staph]

5. We get these calls daily.

Even my 102-year-old mother knows to hang up on them as soon as they say Meducare!

[a kennedy]

6. When my husband was alive, he'd always say when his phone would ring, "can you hold on just a sec??

then he would turn up the sound on the radio he had close to the phone .....whenever I heard the music go loud, i’d know he just answered a spam call.