Phone call from Medicare ?

[baileysdad]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

[golfing eagles]

received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from medicare looking to confirm my medicare number so i could get the "new card" ??? He said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

scam!!!

[MrFlorida]

Yes, it's a scam, been around for a while.

[Stu from NYC]

They keep looking for new suckers to scam

[Dusty_Star]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

Congrats on not giving out your card number!!!

Also, a good move on your part keeping him on the phone until he 'finally hung up on' you. You prevented or at least slowed down, his victimizing other people.

[Topspinmo]

Congrats on not giving out your card number!!!

Also, a good move on your part keeping him on the phone until he 'finally hung up on' you. You prevented or at least slowed down, his victimizing other people.

Also block the number. I know they got hundred more, but got start somewhere.

[retiredguy123]

scam!!!
I'm marking you down as undecided on that.

[golfing eagles]

I'm marking you down as undecided on that.

That's fair. I'm only 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% decided :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

[Carla B]

Got the call yesterday. He was looking for husband's Medicare number. I told him that I handle all communications with Medicare and the account is in fine shape and there is no need to give out any numbers. He hung up.

[jimbomaybe]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

I guess I am mellowing in my old age, really don't want to disappoint these helpful persons, I always give any information requested, I must have given out my SS # 7-8 times , all different

[msilagy]

Scam - people must fall for this or they would not keep doing it. To even ask if there is a new medicare card......well there you go.

[Berwin]

I usually mess with these scammers. I got one, who claimed to be from the IRS, so mad he started cursing me over the phone. Good times.

[Dusty_Star]

I usually mess with these scammers. I got one, who claimed to be from the IRS, so mad he started cursing me over the phone. Good times.

Yes, me too. Soon after 9/11, I had a cretin call looking for money for first responders, claiming to be from the police. Didn't I want to help the brave men & women, played on my sympathy, & gratitude, etc. For various reasons, I could tell he was a con man. I kept him on the line & appeared to be a pigeon. When he finally realized he wasn't getting my credit card, he got quite colorful. :crap2:

[Dusty_Star]

Yes, me too. Soon after 9/11, I had a cretin call looking for money for first responders, claiming to be from the police. Didn't I want to help the brave men & women, played on my sympathy, & gratitude, etc. For various reasons, I could tell he was a con man. I kept him on the line & appeared to be a pigeon. When he finally realized he wasn't getting my credit card, he got quite colorful. :crap2:


Bottom line: These are not nice people, so don't feel badly about refusing to give them any of your details. :Screen_of_Death:

[golfing eagles]

I usually mess with these scammers. I got one, who claimed to be from the IRS, so mad he started cursing me over the phone. Good times.

Likewise, I do the opposite of the recommendations and try to keep them on the line as long as possible. I feel that they have violated my privacy already by ignoring the "Do Not Call" registry. One of my favorites if it is a male is to pretend to be gay and come on to him---usually gets rid of them in a hurry. I also once invited the "US Marshall" who was going to have local law enforcement arrest me for not showing up for "Federal Jury Duty" to come and arrest me himself since it was a "federal" warrant and he was a "federal agent". He advised me to have my lawyers present---which I informed him were from the law firm of Smith, Wesson, Remington, Colt and Glock---he did not show up :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

[KenLee100]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

You did the right thing. I have a feature on my phone that allows me to send a text message that says "please text me" or I send it to voice-mail if I don't recognize the number.
My 97 year old mother would start telling them about Jesus and praying for them until they hung up on her...they finally put her on THEIR do not call list.
These calls originate in Costa Rico and they are not subject to our laws.

[Girlcopper]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?


Sounded wrong...
Why dont you call Medicare and ask instead of throwing a random question here which will get you 50 million diff answers. Dont you think its best to go to the source with a question??. And second thing…..obviously its a scam. That scam has been around for years. Why even question it. Just hang up on the caller

[Barbarataylor]

That was classic -- loved it!

[midiwiz]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

new phonebook = scam calls increase LOL they'll figure it out some day

[MikeN]

SCAMMER call. Never give out that info

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I guess I am mellowing in my old age, really don't want to disappoint these helpful persons, I always give any information requested, I must have given out my SS # 7-8 times , all different

I really hope you're joking. If you're serious, then it means you are giving scammers numbers that MIGHT belong to actual people. That would make you complicit in the scam.

[Andyb]

Scam

[KeithD]

I usually mess with these

scammers. I got one, who claimed to be from the IRS, so mad he started cursing me over the phone. Good times.

You are a checkers player and they are playing chess. Just hang up as they are recording your voice for fake responses. The scam they are presenting is probably not why they are calling. Don’t mess with them.

[RRGuyNJ]

I usually mess with these scammers. I got one, who claimed to be from the IRS, so mad he started cursing me over the phone. Good times.

I do that on occasion when I'm bored. The best was when I got the call I was being arrested for IRS Fraud. I kept him on the phone for several minutes and they said I owed lots of money to the IRS and blah blah blah. We currently live way out in the country so at this point I did my best impression of a very upset individual complete with crying and claiming I paid with all the money I had. I ended the call saying I couldn't live this way any more. I then went out on the back porch I shot my gun into the field and had my wife start screaming in the background. SILENCE on the other end. I know, I'm terrible :evil6: :loco:

[Lea N]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

I don't answer calls from phone numbers I don't recognize. If they left a message like that (and I doubt they would) I would block them.

[Lea N]

I do that on occasion when I'm bored. The best was when I got the call I was being arrested for IRS Fraud. I kept him on the phone for several minutes and they said I owed lots of money to the IRS and blah blah blah. We currently live way out in the country so at this point I did my best impression of a very upset individual complete with crying and claiming I paid with all the money I had. I ended the call saying I couldn't live this way any more. I then went out on the back porch I shot my gun into the field and had my wife start screaming in the background. SILENCE on the other end. I know, I'm terrible :evil6: :loco:

This is too funny. Thanks for the laugh.

[nn0wheremann]

received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from medicare looking to confirm my medicare number so i could get the "new card" ??? He said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...
scam!!!

[Dusty_Star]

I do that on occasion when I'm bored. The best was when I got the call I was being arrested for IRS Fraud. I kept him on the phone for several minutes and they said I owed lots of money to the IRS and blah blah blah. We currently live way out in the country so at this point I did my best impression of a very upset individual complete with crying and claiming I paid with all the money I had. I ended the call saying I couldn't live this way any more. I then went out on the back porch I shot my gun into the field and had my wife start screaming in the background. SILENCE on the other end. I know, I'm terrible :evil6: :loco:

Good one!

[retiredguy123]

I don't answer calls from phone numbers I don't recognize. If they left a message like that (and I doubt they would) I would block them.
I have found that blocking phone numbers is totally ineffective. Scammers use millions of different numbers when they call. I tried several call blocking apps, but none of them worked very well. The only thing that has worked for me is to leave my phone on "do not disturb" all the time with the exception of numbers that are stored in my contacts list. I still get calls from scammers, but I don't hear them, and they can leave a voice mail if they want to.

[Rodneysblue]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

Nope, no way.

[Claraann]

Tell the caller to go to church and ask for forgiveness for all their bad deeds! 😔Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

[kimgarwel12@gmail.com]

If I don't recognize the #, I don't answer the call. If it's important and legit, they can leave a message and I'll return the call. If the voice-mail is suspect, I'll delete and block the #. I probably have more blocked #s than anyone in the country! LOL! I simply don't have time to mess with this crap and "toy" with with these idiots!!

[Lancer]

Simple solution is to not answer the call unless you recognize the number. If they leave a message you can determine if it’s a scam or get the real number and call them back.

[Runner187]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...

It is a scam.

[retiredguy123]

If I don't recognize the #, I don't answer the call. If it's important and legit, they can leave a message and I'll return the call. If the voice-mail is suspect, I'll delete and block the #. I probably have more blocked #s than anyone in the country! LOL! I simply don't have time to mess with this crap and "toy" with with these idiots!!
LOL. I don't care how many numbers you blocked, it is not enough to stop the scammers.

[Stu from NYC]

LOL. I don't care how many numbers you blocked, it is not enough to stop the scammers.

Blocking email does not work, I have one I keep blocking and after awhile realized they have an infinite number of email addresses.

[retiredguy123]

Blocking email does not work, I have one I keep blocking and after awhile realized they have an infinite number of email addresses.
I agree. And, blocking phone numbers is a fool's errand. It does nothing to deter scammers. Today, I have already received 5 calls from scammers. But, my phone didn't ring because only calls to numbers in my contacts list will go through.

[GizmoWhiskers]

Got the call yesterday. He was looking for husband's Medicare number. I told him that I handle all communications with Medicare and the account is in fine shape and there is no need to give out any numbers. He hung up.
Don't talk. AI is cloning voices. The LESS one says the better. Just hang up or don't answer unknown numbers.

[Jewel]

Have received these phone calls also. It's a scam!

[Boomer]

Has anyone else whose Medicare supplement is through United Healthcare received a call recently that pops up with United Healthcare on the screen as the caller…..

AND THEN a robot/recording/AI/whatever the hell it is asks if this is (insert YOUR name here) and asks you to say yes or no?

I did not answer and hung up.

My supplement to Medicare is a Plan F from United Health through AARP. AARP publishes a lot of info about scams, so why in the world would this phone call from one of their business partners be designed to look like a scam?

(Please save the knee-jerk AARP bashing because I think overall they do good lobbying for things that affect seniors — working against those who lobby to put us out to sea on the ice-floes or, even worse, take our choice away and throwing us into total privatization with HMOs. (If I want to pay through the nose for my Plan F supplement, I want to keep the right to do that…….

and don’t tell me the promise has been made to “save” Medicare. Yeah, right. Save it for total privatization, by thrusting everyone onto the same kind of plan where insurance companies get to make all the decisions about our health to the tune of putting profit first. Lots of palm-greasing…….

Btw, to those of us women smart enough to not have fallen for, “You would if you loved me,” back in our day of riding in cars with boys, please continue to look between the lines of what you are being told.)

Oh well, I digress this morning, but it is all on the same topic which is about scam calls……

Was that call I hung up on really from United Healthcare? And if it was, why would the thing ask me to answer Yes or No to my name? We are constantly warned not to respond. We all know about the spoofing — or whatever it is called — of phone numbers. So? If that call really was from my United Health supplement plan “people” why did the set-up violate its own warnings about scams on seniors?

Anyway, anybody else getting calls from United Health that start out trying to capture your voice? (I got calls like this several years ago and found out it was actually them about some of the extra benefits of the plan. So? Yeah. This recent call is probably actually them, BUT their approach is so stupid and counter-intuitive that I hung up.)

Boomer

[OhioBuckeye]

Received a phone call from a person that claimed to be from Medicare looking to confirm my Medicare number so I could get the "new card" ??? he said one with a chip.

I refused to give him my info and he finally hung up on me.

Have you received a call like this? Is there a new card?

Sounded wrong...
Don’t believe anybody what they say over the phone. If it was me I would call the business that’s trying to get in touch with me, just me but there’s to many scams out there so if you’re a Medicare client call them yourself but don’t trust any # they tell you to call, so be safe & don’t call the # they give you! If your anybodies client you should have paperwork with their # on it!

[Two Bills]

What can they do with you saying 'yes' or 'no' or from even recording your voice?
No financial institution deals with me with voice recognition, or even holds a voice recording of me to the best of my knowledge, and certainly none with permission.
Even if there was, there are a lot more layers of security before access to any account.
I have never known any bank or financial business that will part with money with a 'Yes.'

I am, however, a bit worried about face and retina access, as I have this vision of someone stealing my hard-earned with my head dripping blood and tucked under his arm, or with my eyes in his hand!

[Boomer]

What can they do with you saying 'yes' or 'no' or from even recording your voice?
No financial institution deals with me with voice recognition, or even holds a voice recording of me to the best of my knowledge, and certainly none with permission.
Even if there was, there are a lot more layers of security before access to any account.
I have never known any bank or financial business that will part with money with a 'Yes.'

I am, however, a bit worried about face and retina access, as I have this vision of someone stealing my hard-earned with my head dripping blood and tucked under his arm, or with my eyes in his hand!


Maybe so or not, TwoBills, but I was not going to give in, even with one word, to a robot asking me questions on a seemingly random phone call, even with a caller ID attached. If United Healthcare really needs to talk to me about anything I actually need to know, they can do better than that.

I rarely need to call the investment company where our IRAs are parked, but when I do, the recording that answers is always asking to keep my voice as part of the identifying process. Of course, the actual person who finally answers is on a recorded line and that is OK, and even a good thing, and has been standard practice forever — but to get in the door by voice? I just don’t want to do that. It’s creepy. I think I am getting by it, but who knows.

I completely agree with you about that face and eyeball thing. As attributed to The Bard — along with a few others, “The eyes are the window to the soul.”…..EEK! What will they try to get next! ;)

Boomer

[Dusty_Star]

What can they do with you saying 'yes' or 'no' or from even recording your voice?
No financial institution deals with me with voice recognition, or even holds a voice recording of me to the best of my knowledge, and certainly none with permission.
Even if there was, there are a lot more layers of security before access to any account.
I have never known any bank or financial business that will part with money with a 'Yes.'

I am, however, a bit worried about face and retina access, as I have this vision of someone stealing my hard-earned with my head dripping blood and tucked under his arm, or with my eyes in his hand!


Funny.

But a YES recorded in your voice, might be able to do quite a bit of damage.

Do you authorize this wire to 'whoever' of 10,000,000 GBP? YES

Or to authorize credit card charges, phone charges, etc.

I've read, whether it is true or not is a different question, that YES is the worst word to give the con artists.

What is the “Say Yes” Scam? - Genisys(R) Credit Union (https://www.genisyscu.org/genisys-blog/what-is-the-say-yes-scam#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CSay%20Yes%E2%80%9D%20s cam%20is,a%20company%20or%20other%20organization).

[Two Bills]

Funny.

But a YES recorded in your voice, might be able to do quite a bit of damage.

Do you authorize this wire to 'whoever' of 10,000,000 GBP? YES

Or to authorize credit card charges, phone charges, etc.

I've read, whether it is true or not is a different question, that YES is the worst word to give the con artists.

What is the “Say Yes” Scam? - Genisys(R) Credit Union (https://www.genisyscu.org/genisys-blog/what-is-the-say-yes-scam#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CSay%20Yes%E2%80%9D%20s cam%20is,a%20company%20or%20other%20organization).

Sorry. Can't go with that.
There are many layers of security before any 'Yes,' and none of my accounts, banking or not, pay on voice command.
Only I can get through those layers, and unless my accounts have been totally hacked, no one but me is getting anything without those layers.
The very few times I telephone for account access, I have never spoken to a machine either, always a person. (I think!)
May be different in US. but here, 'Yes' won't crack it.......................Yet!

[retiredguy123]

My Vanguard Investment account uses a recorded voice message as my password.

[Boomer]

My Vanguard Investment account uses a recorded voice message as my password.

Hmmmmm, I just now called mine, for the first time in months, and got a real person immediately who asked me for an account number and then took me through the rest of the layered security part that I had set up. That did not used to happen. Nobody said anything about my voice, so maybe they have it, maybe not. But they are not getting my eyeballs!

I love it when a real person that I have called asks me security questions, just don't collect visible parts of physical me. (Yeah, I know. It's too late.)

(Speaking of cyberspace, I like to listen to podcasts with my AirPods when I am doing other things, too. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. The most recent one is titled "Is Google Getting Worse?" It is an update of one about Google that Freakonomics did a while back. It gets into various aspects of how Google butters its bread and also talks about what's out there trying to compete. Info gathering is getting more sophisticated by the minute. I just hope the security of our gathered information is getting more sophisticated by the second.)

Boomer

[retiredguy123]

Hmmmmm, I just now called mine, for the first time in months, and got a real person immediately who asked me for an account number and then took me through the rest of the layered security part that I had set up. That did not used to happen. Nobody said anything about my voice, so maybe they have it, maybe not. But they are not getting my eyeballs!

I love it when a real person that I have called asks me security questions, just don't collect visible parts of physical me. (Yeah, I know. It's too late.)

(Speaking of cyberspace, I like to listen to podcasts with my AirPods when I am doing other things, too. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. The most recent one is titled "Is Google Getting Worse?" It is an update of one about Google that Freakonomics did a while back. It gets into various aspects of how Google butters its bread and also talks about what's out there trying to compete. Info gathering is getting more sophisticated by the minute. I just hope the security of our gathered information is getting more sophisticated by the second.)

Boomer
I think you can get a voice password if you want. You would just call them and make the recording to use in the future. When I call, they ask me to say:

"At Vanguard, my voice is my password"

[Boomer]

I think you can get a voice password if you want. You would just call them and make the recording to use in the future. When I call, they ask me to say:

"At Vanguard, my voice is my password"

I call my local contact first, on her private line, when she is not in, and then I let that number get me through to whoever is on duty wherever they are. My guess is they must have my voice now. Either that or my phone number is telling them who I am.

Today I had a question that needed a walk through. I had a DUH! moment when I got the answer. It was so obvious, I should have figured it out on my own. I appreciated the real person's help though.

Boomer

PS: Speaking of voices, my sister, my daughter, and my granddaughter have been said to sound like me on phone calls. I am not worried about them getting into my account. I just can't buy it that a voice is like a fingerprint.

[Two Bills]

Hmmmmm, I just now called mine, for the first time in months, and got a real person immediately who asked me for an account number and then took me through the rest of the layered security part that I had set up. That did not used to happen. Nobody said anything about my voice, so maybe they have it, maybe not. But they are not getting my eyeballs!

I love it when a real person that I have called asks me security questions, just don't collect visible parts of physical me. (Yeah, I know. It's too late.)

(Speaking of cyberspace, I like to listen to podcasts with my AirPods when I am doing other things, too. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. The most recent one is titled "Is Google Getting Worse?" It is an update of one about Google that Freakonomics did a while back. It gets into various aspects of how Google butters its bread and also talks about what's out there trying to compete. Info gathering is getting more sophisticated by the minute. I just hope the security of our gathered information is getting more sophisticated by the second.)

Boomer

Would not be so bad if it were one eye, but the £*****s want both of them!

[Lea N]

I have found that blocking phone numbers is totally ineffective. Scammers use millions of different numbers when they call. I tried several call blocking apps, but none of them worked very well. The only thing that has worked for me is to leave my phone on "do not disturb" all the time with the exception of numbers that are stored in my contacts list. I still get calls from scammers, but I don't hear them, and they can leave a voice mail if they want to.

Thank you for this info.