A longtime reader who has all of her faculties wants to sound the alarm on a financial scam that preys on the elderly.
Two days before the Medicare prescription drug plan deadline this month, she got a call from someone who wanted to get her signed up for a plan. She hadn't signed up yet because her prescriptions were affordable.
The offer was from "the biggest insurance company in New York," according to the telemarketer. Our reader thought the government was so far behind in getting folks signed up that it turned to foreign workers to get it done. "I kind of felt sorry for them," she said.
The caller turned up the nice level and convinced her to get on their plan. All they needed was her Social Security number and some bank account information so they could draft a $377 start-up fee.
She got suspicious and immediately got to her bank to stop any such transaction. She alerted the police and her congressman and now she wants to alert her fellow central Oklahoma residents.
"But don't use my name," she said. "My kids would have me committed." Labels: No Prescription, Online Pharmacy, Prescription Drugs
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