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Mon Apr 15, 2019, 12:23 PM Apr 2019

We got "promoted" [View all]

In addition to the usual calls about our credit cards, or "replying to inquires" or from "Nancy, our Medicare patient advocate" we now hear, as we answer: grandpa! or grandma!

I just hang up. Spouse replies You are a scammer! and than hangs up.

Sometimes I wonder, since the goal is to provide directions on how to send money, whether it can help if I use my cell phone to call the police and let them on the conversation, if the "guidelines" can assist in catching the scammers but am not sure.

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