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I had a huuuuuuuuuuge increase the past couple months (10-20 a day). Almost all medicare fraud scams. They seem to be tapering down a bit (2-5 a day). It's interesting, because they have all my info (where I live, my full name, etc.), but somehow not my age? Because if they knew my real age, they shouldn't be calling me for medicare fraud scams... I wonder if maybe what's happening is that the people selling leads lists for scammers are willfully omitting age information, so they can charge more for a larger list which is not obviously 50%+ garbage scam leads for medicare fraud.

I also had an uptick in text spam (used to be very rare until maybe 9 months ago, then it became about 1-2 a day, now it's back down to just a few a week).



That's going to be naturally periodic as medicare enrollment happens in the late Fall (typically Novemberish).


These calls having nothing to do with Medicare and everything to do with stealing bank information.

These calls occur year round.


First year it's been this bad, to be honest.


It’s wild how these scammers seem to have a patchwork of your info




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