It is time to refill your prescription

[Michael Z]

This might be the classic scam. You get an alarming email about something like a large purchase you did not make. You click on a link and malware loads onto your computer or you call a number and they talk you into providing log in or bank info.

To see who sent the email, click reply and note the address the reply is going to (without actually replying).

For any doubts, independently contact the agency via a valid contact number or address.

 

[Happyflowerlady]

This might be the classic scam. You get an alarming email about something like a large purchase you did not make. You click on a link and malware loads onto your computer or you call a number and they talk you into providing log in or bank info.

To see who sent the email, click reply and note the address the reply is going to (without actually replying).

For any doubts, independently contact the agency via a valid contact number or address.

You can actually find this information without clicking reply.
The email will say it is from someplace that looks legitimate, like UHC, but when you click on the name to show their actual email address, it will usually show something that looks really scammy, like a string of letters and numbers from hotmail or google or something like that, and not something that says UHC in the email address at all.

I get these all the time, too, and also ones that say they are happily charging me $1500 for the new MacBook I just purchased and is being sent out to me, and even showing a kind of receipt, with some person’s name on it.
The scams now look a lot more realistic than those old ones that said we were related to a dead Nigerian prince and have $6 million dollars in an account and please send our bank info to get the money.

 

[Judycat]

I get reminder notifications by text from my pharmacy. It's usually anywhere from two weeks to two days after I fill a script there. Always too early. I send a text to get them to stop sending reminders. It is usually the number 9 that I have to send. It is annoying that they don't seem to be at all accurate about when my meds are due to be refilled.
What a racket. What happens when the government comes by to check their records then?

 

[Sunny]

I recently got a very realistic-looking email supposedly from my car insurance. It even had the art work (avatar) that usually appears on the company's website. I was supposed to click on a link to stop something or other from expiring.

I didn't, as I never click on that kind of link, and as there was a grammatical error that looked dubious. I closed it and then googled the name of the company and a few words describing the scam. Sure enough, there were a few replies quoting the exact words that were in the email I received.

These scammers are getting more and more clever all the time. They even used an email address with the insurance company's name that looked perfectly legit. Except it wasn't.

 

[Knight]

Don't know if this applies here.

My wife had a doctor appt. last Thursday . He changed one of her meds & faxed the new prescription to Optum Rx online mail.
Saturday UPS delivered the new med. I have no complaints with our advantage plan.