Scammers Trick Medicare Recipients With Fake COVID-19 Tests

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scam artists are preying on older people’s fears by peddling fake tests for the coronavirus to Medicare recipients, a federal law enforcement agency warned on Monday.


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So this is what Beavis and Butthead have been up to?

The acorns didn’t fall far from the Trump Stump…

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Did someone say, “scam”?

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That was my first thought too. And has anyone seen Jared lately?

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Scam artists are preying on older people’s fears by peddling fake tests for the coronavirus to Medicare recipients…

“Now, who would do a thing like that?!?”

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You know the telegrifters have been looking at this crisis as an opening for Jesus

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Did he really say that?! Good grief.

World’s Greatest Scammer!

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With a grifter and his family occupying the WH, I suppose one has to expect that people will feel emboldened to try this kind of stuff. But do these people feel no shame at all or are they all sociopaths?

I hope we get the names of these innovative scammers so we can elect them president one day.