San Leandro Focus

I wrote the text below for today's Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin . I don't want anyone to be a victim of a financial fraud while we are all trying out best to stay home as much as possible.  Please share it with family and friends, particularly seniors. All the best, Stephen Cassidy ----- Scammers are using the pandemic as a means to obtain confidential and personal information from California seniors. Any unsolicited phone call or visit from someone claiming to work for or with Medicare and seeking your Medicare or social security number is a red alert that the person is engaged in a fraud. In one widespread scheme, the  Los Angeles Times reports , fraudsters call Medicare beneficiaries at home, knock on their doors or approach them in the parking lots of grocery stores and pharmacies, then offer them home-test kits for COVID-19 or packages of hand sanitizer, masks and other protective equipment. What they’re after, explains Timothy DeFrancesca, a spe