i too am being recruited via email! we are all special!
The newest phone pain is the “This is (wasp name) , you asked me to call you back, don’t you remember?” And my mom continues to get letters saying her home warranty is going to run out but they can expedite saving her if she just calls. The address is her nursing home but she worries every time.
I received this from my medical insurance broker today:
“ I am reaching out to remind you of the importance of keeping your eyes and ears out for scammers during open enrollment.
Medicare and health insurance scams are incredibly common, and scammers have gotten creative with new ways to steal your money and personal information.
Here are three signs of health insurance scams:
Someone says they’re from the government and need payment or personal information - Government agencies do not call you out of the blue looking for information. If someone asks you for your social security number, bank account, or credit card over the phone, they are most likely trying to scam you.
Someone wants your personal information in exchange for a price quote - Keep in mind that HealthCare.gov will only ask you for your monthly income and your age to provide a quote. If someone calls you and offers to “check your eligibility” in exchange for personal information like your social security number or bank account, they could be setting you up for identity theft.
Someone asks you to pay for a quote - The Marketplace has trained assisters in every state to help you for free. You will never be asked to pay for services or help to apply for Marketplace, Medicaid, or CHIP coverage. If someone is asking you to pay, it’s a scam.
The bottom line is this: if something feels “off,” it probably is. If someone calls and pressures you to give out personal information or tries to rush you into giving over your credit card information, hang up immediately and block the number. If you receive a call you believe is a scam, you can also report it to the Federal Trade Commission.”
A new one. Scammers call. If I don’t answer, they send a text, “Why can’t you pick up? It is urgent.” Allegedly from the same number. Yeah, right.
6:30 am was awakened by a call purporting to be from Kaiser (I am NOT a member) and trying to speak to me in Chinese (I don’t understand Chinese at all). I was irritated and hung up. Have gotten 2 more phone calls purporting to be from Kaiser, again trying to speak to me in Chinese. I’ve blocked those #s. Very annoying!
I had two under $30 Amazon Marketplace charges on my credit card. Although we order a good bit from Amazon we hadn’t in a couple of weeks. Cancelled the card and they removed the charges. Today I got a package addressed to me: 200 carbon slingshot 1/2 “ metal balls. What the ?? I looked them up and they would equal the first charge amount. I filled out a “I got a package I didn’t order” form on the Amazon page. We do have our credit frozen but I’m going to check it just in case. I can’t wait to see what the other package will be. The package has the company name that sent and they look legit but I don’t know if there’s any point in contacting them.
Sorry you had your card info stolen and got some random stuff mailed to you. That would make me unhappy. Glad you got refunded and a new card. Does Amazon want the merchandise you didn’t order back?
I’m unfamiliar with Amazon Marketplace, only know regular amazon and facebook marketplace slightly. I do not sell anything and only buy on Amazon, particularly when I can’t easily acquire the item locally (I of course prefer local sourcing when possible).
The order isn’t listed on my Amazon orders. It appears to be a company selling through Amazon. The credit card company credited my account through their fraud protection policy - I reported it and cancelled the card as soon as I saw the charge on my account. But I think the seller, who did ship to me what someone bought with my card, got paid. It’s just bizarre.
The same thing happened to us, quite a few years ago. We got some weird paper dolls and a book on how to teach your baby to read. Back then, I had no luck getting Amazon to refund the money. It wasn’t much, but I was annoyed. Of course, we got a new credit card.
Can anyone please post a gift link? I read it in my local paper that doesn’t allow gift links.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/zelle-chase-banking-scam.html
Thank you.
Wow. Bigtime scam attempt today. I posted on a store facebook page about a request for a price adjustment and was “contacted” by a “supervisor” via PM who had someone call me from a Canadian # on whats app and try to get me to download an app called “Lemfi” to “process the credit”. SCAM!!! I told them I wasn’t comfortable with this and said I’d call the store. They tried calling back 3 times!! I have blocked the number. But they have the email and phone # associated with my account. Probably need to change the PWD to be safe.
My friend (she’s 68, husband is 75) had a bad experience this week. She got a notice from one of her accounts and found out that she’d been hacked. Retirement accounts at TIAA, Janus, and several other places had been attempted access from unauthorized sources, and accounts at her banks and USAA (credit card? other accounts?). After 8 hours on the phone with all kinds of fraud departments, they figured out the source of the hack was her Comcast account which is connected to a land line. The experts said that Comcast/landline is an easy hack and once they get into it it goes to the dark web and everything tied to your name and account numbers is vulnerable. She will be dropping the landline as the only one who uses it is her MIL who lives next door and can use the cell phone.
For years Comcast marketed internet, cable, and a landline as a Bundle and it was cheaper than getting just internet and cable TV, so everyone got the landlines and the phones just sat there. My friends have lived in their house for 40 years (it was his grandmother’s house and he inherited it). They get calls from the library about books and from political candidates, so it is easy to forget it is there.
Soon it won’t be there! She’s cancelling it.
Anyone gonna sign up for either of these health studies? Never mind the one that’s completely in Chinese but the other one that’s addressed to “dear” …..
Received a strange text today. Telling me President Trump would like to send me my ‘doge check’ but I needed to click on a link to verify my identity and address.
Ummm, I did not respond………
Saw a suspicious charge on parents’ credit card: a $15 donation to the “National Coalition for DI (or is it DL? can’t tell). I googled it and had no hits. So I called during business hours the phone number that shows up on the credit card statement. The call was answered by an answering machine which politely said “Thank you for calling our organization. Please leave your name and number and we will return your call. . . . “ First time I’ve heard an answering message that contains no identifying information for the organization . . . Yup, we’ll be disputing that charge.
I posted on Friday in the “Say it here” no response thread about a strange call I received regarding my health but didn’t go into detail until I heard back from my Dr. This is what happened: I received a phone call with the identifying number popping up as my PCPs office. A lady (heavy Indian accent) referencing my “recent” bloodwork that suggests I may have an autoimmune disease. I’m not sure which blood work she is talking about, I have another one scheduled for my RA doctor next Thursday. I told her, yes, I do have RA. She said that the bloodwork shows there could be more to it than RA??? Very hard to understand but she said autoimmune disease is genetic and the PCP office has a 3rd party lab that will send me a saliva test by mail to determine what other diseases I am genetically predisposed to. She asked about my family history of autoimmune diseases. I said no one that I know of had any autoimmune disease. She went over RA, Lupus, MS, Eczema, etc and I repeated as far as I am aware my mother only had osteoarthritis and I’m the only one with asthma as well. No other family members up down or sideways has autoimmune disease as far as I am aware. She said that they won’t send me the saliva test if I don’t have a genetic link and would I tell them my mother and my aunt had something so I could take the test??? I asked her if she wanted me to lie and then I just got so upset, I hung up. I don’t want to hand out my DNA to anyone (although I’m guessing it’s everywhere these days just by existing) much less some company that blatantly asks me to lie about something. I relayed the info to my Dr through patient portal and she responded this morning this is the 2nd call they have received about something like this. No they have no relationship to anyone or any 3rd party lab doing this saliva testing on their behalf. There is definitely some kind of scam going on but no one knows who or what they are trying to get. I have no good thoughts about people, compnanies, parties that like to define peoples value by their health. Just an FYI, be aware - I could easily see my 88 yo FIL falling for this.
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