Now our Seniors Have to Worry about Drug Card Scams! What next?

[flpoljunkie]

Government Warns of Drug Card Scams

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5794-2004Mar18.html

By DEVLIN BARRETT
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 18, 2004; 6:35 PM

WASHINGTON - For many Americans, the government's new Medicare drug discount card will be a way to save money. For a few, it is a way to make money - by scamming seniors.

The much-anticipated Medicare program to offer cards with discounts on prescription drugs won't begin until May, but 11 states already have seen cases in which con artists are targeting Medicare beneficiaries in fraudulent come-ons, officials said Thursday.

"It's so appalling these individuals are willing to create schemes that take advantage ... of a law intended to do so much good," said Leslie Norwalk, deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Scams so far have involved phone calls or door to door solicitations to ostensibly register people for the new program. Those behind the scams offer to enroll seniors in exchange for their bank information, social security number, or credit card number.

[Deja Q]

1. The schemers are all corporations

Merely ranging from self-propriatorships to large scale corporate shams... This is what corporations do. Screw people from every corner to get their money or to save themselves money, with us paying the price for their greed.