Medicare Scam Checklist: Open Enrollment Oct 15 to Dec 7, 2026
🚩 Red flags: stop if you hear or read
- ☐ “Confirm your Medicare number” or “your new card is ready”
- ☐ “Your benefits are pending” or “will be canceled”
- ☐ “Free” scooters, braces, hearing aids or test kits
- ☐ “Giveback,” “allowance” or “extra benefit, call now”
- ☐ A link, QR code or phone number you did not expect
- ☐ Pressure: “today only,” “act now”
✅ Medicare will never
- Call you to sell you anything, or visit you at home.
- Ask for your Medicare, Social Security or bank account number in a call, text or email you did not expect.
- Threaten to cancel your benefits if you do not act now.
- Ask you to pay for your Medicare card.
📞 Who to call (write numbers you trust here)
- Medicare: 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) · TTY 1-877-486-2048
- Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP): 1-877-808-2468
- Report scams: ReportFraud.ftc.gov
- My bank: ______________________ Family helper: ______________________
Safe way to compare plans: type Medicare.gov yourself (skip “Sponsored” results) or call 1-800-MEDICARE.
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