Industry Note:
Don't Pick Up This Phone Call, OIG Warns
Published on Fri Mar 10, 2017
Your patients should beware a phone scam from fraudsters pretending to be HHS Office of Inspector General reps. Under a telephone spoofing scan, perpetrators represent themselves as OIG Hotline employees and alter the caller ID to make it seem as if the call is coming from 1-800-HHS-TIPS, the OIG reports. Then they use various tactics to obtain the victim’s personal [...]