A medical scam call
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63643)
United States
September 28, 2024 1:39pm CST
So this lady - Lisa... yeah, I don't believe it from her accent.
So, "We are calling to help you or your loved ones with medical help..."
Then she goes through a list of things. Now, I know 95% of them, and I don't have them.
But the last one...
"Are you taking any medication for..." and then she names off something that either I've absolutely never heard of it, or her accent made it unintelligible.
I am not saying she's unintelligent, I'm saying I have no idea what she was asking. So...
"I don't even know what that is, so, no."
"Okay, thank you for the time..."
Click.
I am not going to say exactly what it was she said, I just didn't know what she said. You guys know I'm maybe a bit better informed on medical stuff then the average 'jo' but...
You ever get something and just don't even know what you heard it was so unfamiliar?
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6 responses
@kaylachan (71918)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Sep
Yeah deffently a scam. pretty easy not to fall for.
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@kaylachan (71918)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 Sep
@ElicBxn I get those all the time. They basically list every benifit I already get through medicare/medicaide/United Healthcare. While said company drops tests in my lap for no apparent reason.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
29 Sep
@kaylachan 
I tell you what, even if they listed something I had, I'd'a told them "no"
I tell you what, even if they listed something I had, I'd'a told them "no"1 person likes this
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
30 Sep
@wolfgirl569 and it is impossible to figure out who they are since they spoof the numbers.
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@wolfgirl569 (108301)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Sep
@ElicBxn Many are just scams and don't care about the law
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@BarBaraPrz (47693)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Sep
Sometimes my brain farts and I can't understand plain English, so I ask whoever to repeat what they said.
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@RasmaSandra (80847)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Sep
Too bad you cannot block the spam calls like I get spam blocked in my email,
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
29 Sep
I still get some spam emails, unless they are too annoying I just delete them. However, I had been getting tons of Republican stuff. I'd hit "spam" and they ask if I didn't want to just unsubscribe. No, I tried that at first and they kept coming, so I started hitting spam.
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@RevivedWarrior (2476)
• India
29 Sep
Seems to be scam. Good that you disconnected ,although I would say you stayed a little longer. Again, if it was not a scam , less than 1% chance, they do not know the stuff they are planning to sell. So either ways , not great. I have been receiving such WhatsApp messages and calls in last few years and increasing. A decade ago , it was either Nierian prince or millionaire scams but now , the scams have increased and in different ways. Recently I got a call from a scamster stating Central bank wants to know my debit card details. Well, not worth spending time on unknown calls.
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
30 Sep
You see, with these medical scams, I have all my health insurance from the State of Texas because I'm retired from there. I call myself a "State slave" because instead of increasing our pay, they would either 1- make our insurance better or 2- give us another holiday. Well, they've maxed out the holidays, the only month without one is October. That is because they took one from there to give us... I think... LBJ's birthday. In case you don't know, President Johnson was from Texas. That might be like Massachusetts giving a holiday for President Kennedy's birthday, or the Adamses - both of them. However, I haven't heard any push so far to give Texas either of the Bush Presidents holidays.
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