Scam Warning
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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A couple of weeks ago I called your Times-Union office concerning a phone call I received. The caller was from a foriegn country and could barely speak English. He asked if I was Betty Kindig and asked me to confirm my mailing address. He then told me he was with Medicare and said he was going to send me a new Medicare card so I could continue to receive Social Security.
He asked me for my bank and banking numbers and my Social Security number. I told him I wouldn’t give him either one of them and he then told me that he would cancel my Medicare and Social Security check. I said “You cannot do that,” and to that he replied very sassy, “I can and I just did!”
I thought you would print a warning of a scam in the paper, but you said I should call the police and you would get the information from them. I called the police on a scam a couple of years ago when we got a call from a person saying he was our grandson and needed us to send money. At that time, the police said they could do nothing since the country the call came from had no law against it!
In Southern Indiana, I was told an 84-year-old woman got the very same call and it scared her so much that she did give the numbers and they cleaned out her bank account. It is really very frightening to some elderly folks who cannot afford to lose their Social Security checks. I only wanted to warn people of this.
Betty Kindig
Silver Lake
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A couple of weeks ago I called your Times-Union office concerning a phone call I received. The caller was from a foriegn country and could barely speak English. He asked if I was Betty Kindig and asked me to confirm my mailing address. He then told me he was with Medicare and said he was going to send me a new Medicare card so I could continue to receive Social Security.
He asked me for my bank and banking numbers and my Social Security number. I told him I wouldn’t give him either one of them and he then told me that he would cancel my Medicare and Social Security check. I said “You cannot do that,” and to that he replied very sassy, “I can and I just did!”
I thought you would print a warning of a scam in the paper, but you said I should call the police and you would get the information from them. I called the police on a scam a couple of years ago when we got a call from a person saying he was our grandson and needed us to send money. At that time, the police said they could do nothing since the country the call came from had no law against it!
In Southern Indiana, I was told an 84-year-old woman got the very same call and it scared her so much that she did give the numbers and they cleaned out her bank account. It is really very frightening to some elderly folks who cannot afford to lose their Social Security checks. I only wanted to warn people of this.
Betty Kindig
Silver Lake
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