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<div class="aolReplacedBody"><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From the desk of President, Joe Ruffalo.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Received and request for distribution from Alice Eaddy, Secretary, NFBNJ.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></div><div><div style="display: inline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><b>Subject:</b> Fwd: Medicare Scam - Be Alert!</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></div></div><div style="display: inline; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><i><b>Spreading this important information received from the Professionals Serving the DeafBlind Community list: </b></i></span></div><div><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><font><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br></span></div><b>Medicare Fraud Alert - Read & Heed!</b></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Verified </span><a href="http://atmedicare.org/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">atmedicare.org</a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"> </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Please share this with people who have Medicare, their families and </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">friends or adult kids who help parents with Medicare: </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Have just gotten word about the newest Medicare scam. </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Here's what you need to know to protect yourself, family and friends </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">throughout the US: </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><a href="about:blank" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(34, 34, 34, 0.258824);" target="_blank">Starting 4/1/18</a>, Medicare will start a year-long project to replace all </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">current Medicare cards with cards with alphanumeric ID </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">numbers. Currently the ID number is your social security number. T</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">he new Medicare card will come to you in the mail. </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">You don't need to request it or do anything. It will show up. </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><b>WHAT'S THE SCAM? </b></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Somebody from "MEDICARE" will call to tell you that you are getting a new </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Medicare card, but until it comes you will need a temporary card. The fee for </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">this "temporary" card is between 5-50 dollars. They want personal information, bank </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">account or credit card so they can process your temporary card. </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><b>THINGS TO REMEMBER </b></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Medicare will never call you unless you ask them to. </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Medicare does all communications by mail unless you ask them to call. </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Ditto for anybody saying they "work with Medicare to make sure you get </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">everything you are entitled to" - Scammer alert !!</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><b>HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THIS ONE? </b></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">First of all spread the word. Feel free to share these notes. </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Use your answering machine to screen calls or just don't even answer a </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">number you don't recognize. </span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">If it has happened to you or your friends or loved ones, and personal info </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">has been given out (happens considerably more often than you think, so don't </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">feel bad or stupid) immediately take action to protect yourself against </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">identity theft. </span></font><div><font><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;">-end- </span> </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div></div></blockquote></div></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Forwarded by, </span></font></p><div class="aolReplacedBody"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div class="aolReplacedBody"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div class="aolReplacedBody"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Alice Eaddy Secretary, </span></font></div><div class="aolReplacedBody"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey</span></font></div><div class="aolReplacedBody"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <a href="tel:(856)765-0601" target="_blank">(856)765-0601</a></span></font></div><p class="s8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></p><div class="aolReplacedBody"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <a href="mailto:nfbnj.secretary@aol.com" target="_blank">nfbnj.secretary@aol.com</a> </span></font></div><div class="aolReplacedBody"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="-webkit-standard" size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. 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