{"id":16683,"date":"2020-08-20T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16683"},"modified":"2020-08-20T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:31:08","slug":"scam-alert-things-a-covid-contact-tracer-wouldnt-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16683","title":{"rendered":"Scam Alert: Things a COVID Contact Tracer Wouldn\u2019t Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

State officials and federal agencies warn there\u2019s a new phone scam circulating: Some callers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers try to pry credit card or bank account information from unsuspecting victims.<\/p>\n

The grifters apparently are taking advantage of a genuine public health intervention that\u2019s crucial to stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus: contact tracing.<\/p>\n

In one such scheme, detailed in\u00a0a warning from the Montana attorney general, scammers tell their victims, \u201cI\u2019m calling from your local health department to let you know that you have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19.\u201d Then they move in for the kill, asking for payment information \u201cbefore we continue.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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