[Claraann]

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

Originally Posted by 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...

[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]

Originally Posted by 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...

It is a scam.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by 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!!

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

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

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]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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...

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]

Originally Posted by 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!

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]

Originally Posted by 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!

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.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by Dusty_Star

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.

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!