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For Mary Ann Dunbar Bal Harbour, manage their personal finances to serve a written checks.Today quantity, it uses a credit card to pay for their purchases.I write only one cheque for months, “she says and draws attention to their monthly bill by credit card.

In the meantime, she and her friends are checkless also go to other ways too. A friend of controls ever - or cash. “She uses only its EC card, which automatically draws money for the purchase of their current account.

The practice of course is checkless loses millions of Americans. In other words, the review is returned American work and life forms.

The selection and evil in the label.

What is the status of processing ethics? With a survey of 410 remodelers, we have the ethical temperature “of the industry (see Reader” Control Panel “, page 96). Remodelers are independent in the world. They feel comfortable to fight against government policy against the decency, fairness and common sense - in a roundabout, at least. It would not be more comfortable combat politics. “I do not see, they focus on their ethics language,” says William A. Ward, Ph.D., an ethics committee business and an expert on time carpenter, check the survey results.Remodelers have their own pace, what I do wrong: 92% would never use illegal aliens as day labourers. They also have their own pace, which is not false: 51% have worked without it allows “good” reasons. Many somewhere between the two major issues. In the newspaper business I have questions relating to licensing, authorization and workers’ comp - these contractors, there are many grey areas.

To continue to evaluate the industry ethics, the renovation has spoken with contractors, the Council of Better Business offices, club members in the transformation of ethics “execution” and regulatory officials. Ward, and Richard Coughlan, Ph.D., another business ethics, verifies the results of investigations and provided answers to ethical dilemmas, answer: What is true in this case? Their answers are scattered in fields, throughout the history.

Treatment of securities and derivatives firms in bankruptcy

Part I of this article summarizes the main basic concepts of trading in derivatives and explains the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code (Financial Market provisions), where this type of transactions and securities transactions may get special treatment. The following table summarizes the basic structure of the financial market in detail the provisions of Part I.Follow additional indications in the table on the master netting agreements, arrangements have been inserted for in the Customs Code by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA). Master agreements have not been specifically in Part I as a separate category of “protection contracts” 1

because the provisions under these agreements largely complete protection mechanisms in regard to the five types of protected areas. The provisions relating to the main novation agreements (as well as other changes made by BAPCPA) is now clear that participants in the financial market in financial market supervision and arrangements ( “protected”) may come from the proximity and on the road or “net” claim against the debtor that are not only within or inside of certain types of contractual protection, but also on two or more types of contracts. So, is a subsidiary of a can say that it against the debtor under a futures contract against an amount, it must debtor under a swap arrangement. The main innovation provisions, however, does not apply when the protection of participants, for the first time the right to protection measures offered in protecting individual territories for the close-out netting or another is sought .

As described in Part I of this article, s.546 several sub-sections of the Code of the capacity of a trustee or debtor-in-possession (DIP) to avoid a transfer of ownership, a margin Regulation or other similar payments (a “protected payment”), or a service protected participant.2 Regarding transactions of securities, s.546 (E) was designated by the term “broker defence “3 by referring to the fact that the conduct of investment operations are often treated by and by one or several participants who stockbroker. The scope of this defence, but was the subject of many disputes and contradictory opinions between the courts.

Congress takes to act diploma mills

If Pittsburgh City Council Woman Twanda Carlisle has come under the control of the last year for the admission of $ 27000 for a controversial study that a friend of her mother, she defended the study and the author said: “It is a Ph.D. He is qualified.”Otto Lee Johnson, presented the report of 85 pages on the city, health issues, reports written by other agencies and an essay on race and religion, has a doctorate on the resumption of its list of Columbia State University . But it is a school that has never existed unless the company sells a false degree of people who are ready to buy.

Columbia State University, had no campus, and not Faculty of work, was arrested by federal authorities, explains the nature of profitable Internet companies a “diploma mill”. Its owner in 2004, guilty of fraud fees.

The mere fact that the buyer sends a check or money order. They know what they are buying, “said Allen Ezell, former director of the FBI diploma mill games Task Force”. The diploma mill white, what they sell. The third party in the dark. ”

With the advent of the Internet and the escalating demand opening session university in a competitive labour market, the popularity of diploma mills is officially broken, and many countries, including Pennsylvania, have been slow to get legislation outlawing.

Hundreds of existing schools are sold in the degree of Internet and tens of selling more accurate financial statements buildings, colleges and universities in real terms.

Democratic senators propose Enron market manipulation

The prices of future contracts of electricity has fallen to 30 per cent in the Pacific Northwest immediately after the collapse of Enron Corp. ‘bankruptcy, several leading Democratic senators Tuesday that Enron may have manipulated the market and consumers gouged.Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Pat Wood promised Sens Maria Cantwell of Washington, Dianne Feinstein of California and Ron Wyden of Oregon, that his agency.

Enron officials have repeatedly denied these allegations, and several studies did not produce any evidence for a fault at Enron. But the investigations have not yet studied in depth in crafts, beyond the line of Enron, the Internet based on the market.

Tuesday the hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee began as a look at the effects of the bankruptcy of Enron on the energy markets. Senator Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska

Major changes on current account

Like most everything else in this rapidly changing world, current accounts, shortly before entering a new era of domination and speed of some old habits of confidence on the road.The changes, set to begin Thursday under a new federal law called “Check 21″ Finally, they are expected to affect and control of each bank account customers in the nation. For many, that changes in their lives film as easily as a visa to any struck by a stolen credit card machine.

But if you take a million Americans on the ritual of clearing of cheques your book with controls removed, you must make the adjustment.

And if you play the “float” - by writing checks before you have enough money to the bank to cover, because you know it is not clear for several days - there is much more chance of bouncing checks.

The compensation cheques will be much faster, “said Gail Hillebrand, senior attorney with the Consumers Union, nonprofit Edited by Consumer Reports.” There will be a discount for cushions.

Waging war against identity theft.

New law, new tools help, but consumer awareness is the key The high cost of identity theft is sufficiently serious for resource mobilization for issuers of credit cards, suppliers, legislators and regulatory authorities for financial information more secure. But at the end of the day, the chain is as strong as its weakest link, and it is quite possible for consumers.It is wrong to claim that consumers on the naive question of identity theft or the dangers that personal data to fall into the wrong hands - it still uncertain what they should do to prevent it. In order not to make mistakes, identity theft is a crime that can be found on the ground. If the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of consumers surveyed last fall to determine how the problem was serious, they found more than 27 million people were victims of crime between 1997 and 2002 - nearly 10 million in 2002 only. Losses for the year 2002, last year data are available, a total of nearly 48 billion dollars, and the consumer pays $ 5 billion in Out-of-pocket expenses for their lives on track after his good name and credit was removed and dirty. After the outcry of protests from consumer groups and many horror stories about how the crime has ruined life, gave Congress a few consumers of new instruments to fight against identity fraud last fall in the form of exhibitions and truth credit (FACT Act) of 2003. Last week, the FTC has the finishing touches on the first phase of the new rules, by the fact - rules requiring that nation-states, the three associations consumer credit reporting agencies - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion - to consumers a free copy of their credit - Reports (also known as the “annual file disclosure) per year. While a free credit report may not seem like the silver ball in the war against the usurpation of identity - finally, consumers can buy his own credit reports today for about $ 8 or they can get one for free if they apply for credit

many issues are at the boiling

These days, it seems, legislators and regulators in almost all jurisdictions in the rules to work on other governing mortgage. [?] Whether for a weight on the “fitness” of a loan to concepts, practices Title Insurance, Real Estate proceedings Act (RESPA) reform, Fair Credit Reporting, rules partitioning, fraud or consumer protection, or a little shade bands, there is a governmental organization, measures to be taken. [?] While this is happening at the federal regulatory level is more than sufficient in itself, there are also 50 different countries (not to mention the countless varieties), the formula (or appear to be) their own laws and regulations an Aspect of mortgage financing. [?] All these monitoring costs money - and not only on implementation. Where can it really is ring the register on compatibility. [?] “It is terribly disturbing to see state by state, and even Landkreis County, which regulations [we are] in operation,” said Brian L. Koss, Managing Partner at Mortgage Network Inc., Danvers, Massachusetts. “The responsibility is enormous.” [?] David Baca shares this concern. Baca, Vice President of the City of Miller, Maryland, in the office of Richmond, Virginia-based SunTrust Mortgage Inc., said: “There are many guidelines …. You have to flip through pages of guidelines for the right product, and this is inefficient.

Nevada first convictions for fraud

Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that the Nevada Department of Justice, Insurance Fraud Unit, secure convictions more per capita than any other state. The statistics for insurance crimes were adopted by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud late last year, for each of 43 countries, fraud office investigation and prosecution. The coalition, an end of the year of publication for the year 2003, said: “Nevada condemned most fraudsters per capita over the last year, registering more than 10 convictions for each 100000 inhabitants . ” A recent federal survey on public opinion shows a fraud insurance of four people say it is okay to lie to the affairs of insurance companies to get money. Senior Deputy Attorney General Marty Howard, director of the IFU, these statistics are very disturbing. “We think that more people recognize that lies to their insurance company to obtain benefits not deserved flight and it is morally wrong. One would have thought that the possibility, and sentenced deter those who would not. For some It will suffice. For the rest, finally, the chances are very good, they deal with us. There are no victims. Honest to bear the costs of insurance for insurance fraud. “Howard also described the severe penalties for insurance fraud: “Insurance fraud is a crime in Nevada, like the flight of large or stolen. You can choose to prison for up to five years and” a fine of $ 5000.00. A felony conviction is not only your freedom, your right to vote, your right to certain jobs, and it is difficult to impact your family. We intend to continue this message from dishonest and get people to think a little more seriously about the consequences of the declaration of insurance fraud. “Insurance fraud is one of the most expensive of the white-collar crime in the USA, ranking second only to tax evasion. A study by Hartford, Connecticut-based commands & Co. estimated the cost of the insurance industry $ 96 billion per year. A character is in the report that insurance fraud costs $ 5000 families a year. This amount includes not only higher premiums, but also the rise in prices that results for consumer goods and services.

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A telephone warning Scam Ring of Truth.

An alarming E-mail has blanketed the Internet, the competence of the recipient: “It is not always dial the prefix 809.Numerous calls to the Dominican Republic indicative of fraud are artists, leave a voice mail call and educated customers are demanding a price or information to a sick relative, the e-mail alert. And because the USA is no stranger settle the telephone service, e-mail indicates fraudsters charge $ 2425 per minute.

The e-mail was signed by Sandi Van Handel, Field Service Manager at AT & T.

The problem: Scam warning is a fraud. AT & T said it would deal Sandi Van Handel. And although these towers, there’s the phone, they are generally not with the area code 809.

Wyden letter from the north coast on the health schools

Thus, while each seat was Saturday afternoon for the USA Senator Ron Wyden’s session of the council on Wednesday Consumer Center.State Senator Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, introduced Wyden, of course, was very satisfied with participation in a sunny day. It is “pure filtered democracy,” said Wyden, then spent the next two hours fielding questions about the war in Iraq, health, education, liquefied natural gas, economy, taxation, abortion, the fishing industry and dredging permits.

As for Iraq, “My feeling is that many legislators think, a big old tidal wave was last year, November,” said Wyden. He said he was one of 23 senators, would not the war, and during the past year, it was one of 13 senators voted in favor of the legislation would mean that troops at home in a gradual retirement over a period of one year. He said that the entire country was misled about the reasons for entering the war. Well, he said: “It is important that Iraqis govern themselves … Our troops have led a crutch.

Wind by legislative restrictions continue

Like the “School House Rock” Saturday morning cartoon shows, telemarketing laws are winding through their legislative bodies at any given time, and rightly so. An important step in Texas is close more and more a law and three other laws of invoices were the effects on telemarketing aimed at residents in Delaware, Montana and Arkansas.Delaware House Bill 10 was en Sciences of the legal end of March. The law deregulating the electricity market in the state, so that competing suppliers of electricity services in the marketplace Delaware citizens.

The movement of electric deregulation is supported speed in many countries and could be a great opportunity for companies and call centers and the possibility, by the deregulation of long distance telephone services - but not in Delaware.

The law contains an amendment that clearly the margin by one vote and said: “All suppliers of electrical equipment, it is forbidden to telephone marketing to solicit customers.”

This prohibition is probably not because they special procedures against the media and the message closes without good reason, but it is the law, so that the market only opens when the legislature of another change passports or offering is impressed by the lower courts.

Bypass consumers should if firms

an employee of Providence Health Care Systems backup tapes stored on your computer the night in his van, which was parked at the entrance to his house. The tapes were stolen - and have been given on 365000 patients in Oregon and Washington.Data from patients, social insurance numbers, dates of birth, addresses and medical information. But patients were not affected by the breach of security until January 25, 2006 - almost a month later.

Many consumers have forward and enables the identification flight Oregon Attorney General. The rest regardless of whether they may be victims of identity theft - or disclosure of their personal medical information.

Not that this February, a Class Action Lawsuit monitoring. I would argue that the request to indicate the appropriate corrective action - but also that the legislators should perhaps step in the creation of clarifying the legal obligations and remedies for violations of security that is how we succeed.

The abuse Shootout in Washington

After public hearings, lobbying energetically long-term work and debate, the Clinton Administration of Health Bill contains a series of reforms fault true that almost anyone. Accordingly, Congress is besieged by lobbyists trying to strengthen or weaken the proposals unfair commercial or promote alternatives.In the Clinton plan offence reform proposals are limits for legal fees, former arbitration practice guidelines, an abuse of defence, “responsibility” and public access to Bank data National Practitioner. Absent are not limit values for economic damage. And while the “no-fault” concept is not part of the President’s proposal, organized medicine in the debate (see page 119).

Proponents of the reform includes misbehaviour by WADA, specialty materials companies, hospitals, insurance and industry; together, they call abuse Clinton package too low. Your opponent is high bar, the complainant, represented by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. There are also several consumer groups - among them, Public Citizen, Citizen Action and the National Centre for patients’ rights - the wish fault reform, but only to better protection for patients.

Today most legislators are reluctant to invest in energy malpracrice national reform. Some fear that by lawyers of the powerful attempt to ‘lobby, and some see constitutional violations, such as the States against infringement on the rights of claimants and limiting the right to a remedy.

ATLA lobby and health are two million dollars for their opinions, but lawyers have a big tactical advantage: while the medicine of war must be organized on many fronts of the health bill, ATLA can focus on the single package of misconduct.

The doctors think this is a fight for health care policy, “said Martin Connor, president of the American Tort Reform Association, a coalition of the medical profession and insurance industry.” But it is really political. The trial lawyers look at this law as a direct attack on their portfolio. To do so, they are not to discuss the issues. They’ll play Hardball with the Congress of Deputies want their campaign.

According to Robert A. Berenson internist, chaired by the task force Bill Clinton’s doctor of the law of responsibility Panel: “The most important thing in this bill is it ever that something about breaches. When he is concerned, the federal government in the wrongful act of affairs for the reform first.

Battles on the right to grant business degrees.

LD Bell High School defensive coordinator Nick Junior certainly be better described as overachiever.Junior-not cuss, construction end, students in the classroom and left the Cup field after the last player, Blue Raiders Coach Dodson said Ross.

Perhaps it was his efforts for a maximum of caught up to the end of 45 years, history professor in May, when the Hurst, Euless Bedford School District discovered that Junior’s master was the conclusion of a Christian school unaccredited around New Orleans.

For a little over two years, the circle on Junior paid $ 94000 - $ 3476.84, there should not have. The district rewards employees for masters with a scholarship.

In the coming months, the court will check the identification of 1400 teachers and amend its policy on recruitment and compensation to require that levels of higher education accredited. In August, the country needs Junior court again to pay the award. Junior, directed by a journalist, acknowledged reimbursement of the district, but does not have been more questions and not responding to requests seeking further comment.

From local school federal Homeland Security Department, unaccredited graduates of religious schools have their degree of motivation for a job, their career before taking the house and a little more taxpayers’ money.

Some of these schools are nothing more than able to mills. In other places, students reported wrong in thousands of dollars per year and are wasting their lives to value degrees.

In Texas, a fight that mines the protection of consumers against the free exercise of religion is the perception of momentum. A Texas Supreme Court case-and a challenge for legislators, the State religious groups - the Southern Baptists to Sikhs - the power to grant degrees State unattended. Today, all schools, Baylor University in Waco to Dallas Theological Seminary, it is necessary that the government of higher education recognized by the State or accreditation standards and to grant degrees to appoint them even a university or seminary.

Change of name can not hide fraud

A Travis County District Court found that a Houston company changed its name several times while trying to avoid prosecution for fraud Premium, Texas Mutual Insurance Company. AC Bar & Plastering Inc., owner and operator of Geserick and Kevin Martin-ball from Houston, was to pay $ 450000 back to Texas Mutual as part of an agreement on average. The prosecution contended that Geserick and ball employees transferred from one company to another and deliberately misrepresented its payroll to Texas Mutual in order to gain workers’ compensation coverage at a lower premium. The company originally requested Workers’ Compensation coverage under the name Atlantic Partners, L & P Trust. In subsequent years, Geserick sports ball and changing the name of the company Atlantic Partners, then to Atlantic If Texas Contractors Inc. mutual Wirtschaftsprüfer attempted an audit of the company “salary list Geserick-ball and refused to take the necessary measures Discs . Investigators Texas Mutual Marti Rickard finally discovered two other firms, Inc. Stone Actors and AC & Plastering bar Inc, during his investigation. Proof that Geserick ball and tried to develop other businesses to avoid the further fraud Premium . Rickard credits “the excellent work of Travis County DA’s Office” to safeguard the refund. Assistant Travis County District Attorney Donna Crosby deals with the indictment.

West Coast Bank adds products

Unfortunately for Sznewajs, President and CEO of the Lake Oswego-based bank holding company began its results in the review of the Oregon also enfonçons into a recession. West Coast shareholders will likely cut him some slack, considering the fact that most independent banks are struggling to produce figures bearable.But patience might be difficult to come after observing other banks to catch up on the West Coast in the fight for the top-ranking, as regards the assets and subsidiaries, Oregon-based banks. And what is even more important is that some of these competitors are also better reflect the growth in earnings.Have, we lost our advantage? No, we did not say Sznewajs.

West Coast is ready for integration of the four subsidiary banks unified in 1999, he said. There have been several new products and services implemented and a turnover of the aggressive culture. Back-room operations are simplified, and the company is at a point where they can consider acquisitions of assets.

Draz Lead business surveys.

Trans European Union today announced the appointment of Daniel Draz, 45, to lead the company’s value investigations. Draz brings together over 20 years of successful investigation and fight against fraud and experience is responsible for the coordination, management and implementation of initiatives that focus on prevention, detection and investigation against the TransUnion fraud.Screening and fight against fraud against the company is crucial to maintaining the trust we have with our employees, customers and the public, “said Mitch Hoppe of Worth, Vice President of Global Compliance

If the taxation of e-mail to stop spam

Legislators, anti-spam activists and even a self-professed “spammers” are mulling several methods for the canning industry spam, is not a small fee for sending the e-mail to an international treaty anti - spam.Congress should be a small fee for each piece of e-mails, a senator said the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Commission at a hearing held Wednesday.

I think it deserves a look at some very, very small fee for each e-mail, so small that it would not be binding on any person or company that has regularly (e-mail), but it would be a deterrent effect for sending millions and even billions of these e-mails, “said Senator Mark Dayton (D-Minnesota).

Dayton early March, the computer, Owners’ Bill of Rights “,” proposes the creation of a national registry anti-spam is not a fee for sending the e-mail. But in the hearing, to promote Dayton an e-mail And a federal tax anti-spam SWAT team in the fight against the increasing quantities of unwanted advertisements by e-mail, Internet users “in box.

Dayton’s, several ideas were put forward at the hearing, where the consensus seemed that something should be done about spam before it reverses the Internet. But only a few senators and witnesses could be based on a solution.

Avoid these transplants hurricane.

The Oregon Auto Dealers Association suspects hurricane damaged cars south east perhaps soon again in the North West for sale naive buyer.It does not yet exist, we can confirm, but we now have two distributors, they think the floods had damaged cars, “said Greg Remensperger, the Association of Executive Vice President. Purchased dealers cars on the Highway auction recently had floods, which may be of Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. Traders are cars control of the ‘title stories to try to confirm their suspicions.

In Oregon’s Trade Practices Act illegal, suppliers must disclose that a car was damaged in a flood, said Jan Margosian, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice unit of consumer protection. But it is difficult to prove prior knowledge, so that the consumer the best defense against the confusion

Anti Spyware company continued under the law on spyware

Microsoft and the Washington State Attorney General brought the federal appeals against anti-spyware on your computer supplier-Secure, said that White Plains, New York, company cleaning spyware are not just delete software spies of advertising, but proceeded to change computer users to less secure.The Attorney General of the first complaint is the status of files to Washington’s 2005 Computer Spyware Act.

Washington’s 16-count complaint was filed this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle, and follows studies Microsoft and the Attorney-General’s High-Tech Fraud Unit. In addition to the law against spyware, the complaint raises Secure computer offence against the State Commercial E-mail Acts and consumer protection, and the Federal Constitution CAN-SPAM (Controlling Assault of Non of the request, Pornography and Marketing Act), said Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, in an interview.

What to do with this company was, is the marketing of their products Spyware Cleaner false and misleading on ways and corrupting computer users’ hard drives as a result of the so-called free scan, they are available to consumers, “he said.

The state appeal also names Secure Computer President Paul E. Burke and Web domain ownership Gary T. Preston, both of New York State, as a defendant. The additional cost Zhijian Chen, of Portland, Oregon, Seth Traub, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Manoj Kumar, Maharashtra, India, as part of publicity for the product.

McKenna pushes identity theft solutions

A consumer fears impending identity theft - perhaps because of a wallet stolen - the situation would be the freezing of its funds under a measure proposed by the Attorney General Rob McKenna.A credit freeze prohibits credit is not issued, with consumers the name and access to a credit history.

We believe that you should be able to freeze your credit before you connect to a victim - if you think you are in danger, a victim, “McKenna said Thursday.

According to the law in force consumers can not freeze its assets, a thief actually uses the information on the commission of an offence, “said McKenna.

His proposal was presented one day after Providence Health System, a provider of regional medical services, it is apparent that a thief had with the medical records of patients on 365000 - mostly in Oregon and Washington. With sensitive information on health, the records contain the names, addresses and social insurance numbers.

Accordingly, the Attorney General of three volunteers department of consumer protection in Vancouver has received about 45 calls per hour Thursday morning, McKenna said.

The security freeze the account, under the auspices of Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, was the recommendation of primary school McKenna’s identity theft, the November summit. The Consumer Data Industry Association, representing the intelligence agencies and a representative of the “progressive” testified in favor of the insurance bill on Thursday.

Another measure of rationalization McKenna, communication between law enforcement and financial institutions in a secure method for sharing information. It also aims to facilitate states to coordinate, in cases of identity theft.

Bank of America security online expansion

Security online service freely available to protect and identify fraudulent Web sitesA bank online security features to help prevent fraud and identity theft grows in this month to California customers, and is an optional part of a character for Bank of America customers in all countries where it is available.

The free service, called SiteKey (TM) provides an additional level of authentication for better security. Customers make a thousand photos, you write a short sentence, and then select the challenge posed three questions. The client and the Bank may happen that the information contained in both directions sure to confirm the identity of the other.

Use SiteKey is, as always, a safe, that two keys to open it. Before the customer and the bank agree to open the field

Medicare provides telephone companies are all Scams

Bloom, Eva answers the phone in his house in Emmett agree on a new improved Medicare card. The caller claimed that a public authority to a new “Life Line” a card, a monthly fee deducted from Social Security Bloom.Bloom agreed to pay $ 389, but at times Aufhangen was achieved something is wrong. She and her daughter, Lisa, called the Better Business Bureau, and directed to immediately stop the payment to the agency.

Unfortunately, Bloom’s is only one of many calls we’ve received recently. The disease remission thieves have made the pace and met a number of elderly in our region.

The CAS is the same: A senior, the visitor towards the disclosure of the dates of birth, last four digits of Social Insurance, account number and credit card numbers. Simple and straightforward, the call is fraud.

It is illegal to sell products disease through the telephone or door to door. Medicare communicate by e-mail. Never give your Social Security, bank account or credit card to someone who claims to be a government of the Authority. If you have any doubts, suspend and call the agency directly on the number published in a local telephone directory.