poss scam call

[AllaN01Bear]

got a call from a person claiming to be from medicare asing if i had recived my new medicare. card ,ALARM alarm. rinse and repeat.i said i dont giver personal information over the fphone and not to those whow dont ask my security questions . click. i hung up

[SheltieLover]

1. Good for you, Bear!

[woodsprite]

2. I have been getting the same calls. Drives me nuts but I guess it's the price

I pay for still having a land line (thankfully that's the only number I receive them on).

There's a new one I saw today - not medical phishing, but a text impersonating AT&T. They said "It's time to check your iPhone battery health so click on the link below". Yeah, right. I called to warn my MIL about it right away. She's already gone through one bout of scamming where she gave them her SSN and verified all her banking info.

[multigraincracker]

3. Got one today. Played along for awhile.

When they mention knee brace I told them check their records as had both legs amputated a month ago

[AllaN01Bear]

4. i read that story a short while back.

[LogDog75]

5. I have a landline that screens calls

The phone gives a message that you have to press 1 to reach someone. This eliminates also all robocalls. The ones that do get through I let my voice mail handle it and they usually hang up. On my cellphone, unless the number being called from is in my contacts list, the phone will screen the call and alert me whether it's a "scam." If it's someone I know they'll leave a voice mail.

[CTyankee]

6. You and I must be the only folk on DU who still have landline phones.

I like my landline phone. I hate my cell phone and it is my 3rd one. I just threw one of them out but I prolly should have kept it and sold it as an antique cell phone. It was an oddly shaped flip phone.