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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