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New Social media scam aimed at Diabetics

Oldvatr

Oldvatr

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
US News channels are reporting the appearance of a new scam flooding the social media, which offers free and immediate testing kits for diabetics in US, It includes a link to a fake ADA web site that asks for patient details such as social number and other personal info. It is a phishing scam and there is no 'approved home test kit' that ADA and NIH have passed for medical use. This warning is also being reported by the FCC:

https://www.fcc.gov/covid-scams
 
Quite a few scams getting around surrounding covid.

Anything that asks for social security numbers or similar very sensitive information is pretty much always going to be a scam.
 
Thanks @Oldvatr ,

Seen a few on the news regarding substandard "knockoff" COVID essentials the other night?
We are not talking about football shirts or DVDs..

Keep well.!
 
Jaylee said:
Thanks @Oldvatr ,

Seen a few on the news regarding substandard "knockoff" COVID essentials the other night?
We are not talking about football shirts or DVDs..

Keep well.!
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Thanx. Another scam in the news this morning

Text message on mobile phones stating that the reader has recently been exposed to an active source of Covid-19, and giving a contact point that is faked to look like an official government site but again is a spoof copy set up to get personal data. They seem to be working from a blacklist of hacked phone numbers since the text as read by the recipient mentions them by name, but ask for identity verification to be made 'for confidentiality purposes'. Sometimes this is in the form of 'Is this you?' so you are confirming your name is associated with a phone number they already hold.

These scams seem to be well presented and will fool many into believing they are being informed as part of the proposed monitoring measures being discussed on TV etc. So beware. Those measures are not yet in place so that is the elephant in the room. Will not be so easy to dismiss once the measures are legitimately introduced as being hinted at by the current news outlets
 
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