Medicare Number Scam - I fell for it!

[usonian]

6. I remember hearing about one way to detect scams.

If it claims to come from your pharmacy, say you’ll call them back

At the pharmacy’s well known number (It’s on all your meds)
When they hear this, they should just give up.

I’m sure there are many other ways, but this popped into my mind.

My Ophthalmologist’s office is begging me weekly to set up an account at a portal.

Having worked with computers most of my career, to me, that’s creating another opportunity for a hacker to break into and grab my info. Right now, major corporations and infrastructure are under heavy attack by China and others.

Apparently a Russian group broke into Microsoft, which hosts unclassified emails for the state department, and got some of their messages, and internal Microsoft correspondence and maybe some program code.

With all their “I.T. experts” they couldn’t prevent a break-in, so whoever is hosting my provider’s portal is going to be safer?

The old line from Taxi went “America’s one tough town”.

I am sure that at the Social Security, Medicare and IRS sites, there is a lot of info on avoiding scams.

Good luck.