Phone call from Medicare ?
 

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...

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

They keep looking for new suckers to scam

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.

I'm marking you down as undecided on that.

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

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.

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

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.

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:

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

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:

Scam calls.
 

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.

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

That was classic -- loved it!

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

SCAMMER call. Never give out that info

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.

Scam

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.

Make em wonder!
 

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:

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.

This is too funny. Thanks for the laugh.

scam!!!

Good one!

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.

Nope, no way.

Scam!
 

Tell the caller to go to church and ask for forgiveness for all their bad deeds! 😔

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!!

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.

It is a scam.

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.

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.

Don't talk. AI is cloning voices. The LESS one says the better. Just hang up or don't answer unknown numbers.

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

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.)

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