tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2020 Issue Q3

Industry Notes: Watch Out for Phone Scammers Posing as OIG

A recent scam alert suggests that you should be extra cautious of giving your personal information out over the phone — even to the feds. Details: In an unusual about-face, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) warns individuals to be wary of telephone calls using official OIG phone numbers. Apparently, scammers are using real OIG numbers in a spoofing scheme to steal individuals’ data for nefarious purposes. “These scammers represent themselves as HHS-OIG employees and can alter the appearance of the caller ID to make it seem as if the call is coming from HHS-OIG phone numbers...

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