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Most
health care providers are honest and are providing the best care
they can, but the small number who aren't find ways to steal billions
of dollars from the health care system each year. Even more is lost
to errors in billing that are never found. Below you will find current
scams that are happening right here in Iowa.
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 There is a company going door-to-door in Iowa saying they want to upgrade your Lifeline equipment as part of a security alarm system. This information came from Immanuel Lifeline but regardless of which company you received your lifeline from, be aware of this scam.
Immanuel Lifeline never goes door-to-door. They do not send anyone to your home without calling and setting up an appointment. If your upgrade your equipment needs to be updated, you will receive a letter and give you a follow up phone call to setup an appointment.
One of the names this company is using the name Apex Alarm, Honeywell Security Products Dealer. They are offering you free equipment with an installation charge and monthly payments if you sign up for a three year contract. Their monthly charge will go for 3 years even if your needs change or you no longer need the service in those years.
Please share this information with family and friends so they are aware of this situation. Over the past 23 years, Immanuel Lifeline has been committed to your safety and security.
If you have any questions regarding Immanuel Lifeline, call 402-829-3277 or 1-800-676-9449.
Or call your Lifeline representative.
Posted: 9/06/2005
Variations on the Nigerian Money Offer scam continue to plague Iowa. The offers come by email, letter or fax. The writer is a high-ranking person in a foreign country. You're offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The writer, stressing privacy, wants your help to move a large sum of money out of his country. All you have to do is to allow him to transfer millions of dollars into your bank account.
He promises you'll get a large part of that money after the transfer. To accept, all you have to do is send your bank information, business letterhead, telephone and fax numbers. Sounds like an easy way to make millions. The following letter, written in broken English, is an example of Nigerian Money Offer letter that ORT has recently obtained.
NAME: MR JACKSON JAFAH
ADDRESS: 62 Garric House, Circular Road, Douglas
Isle of man. IN99 IDZ,UK
Dear friend,
My name is DR JACKSON JAFAH torney of late Thompson Morris a citizen of Unites States of America who deposited the sum of $15.6million US Dollars cash in a DIPLOMATIC SECURITY COMPANY in London address :62 Garric House, Circular Road, Douglas Isle of man. IN99 IDZ,UK
I have been able to request for the release of this funds and to be tranfer to any of his family member/cousin which will be you in USA.
The problem that am having is to get someone that base in U.S.A and a Citizen that will forward me his contact and also his full name and identification then i will proceed by sending a POWER of ATTORNEY and direct the Diplomatic
Security company to deliver the funds to you either by cash or by Bank tranfer due to the fact that the funds is deposited in cash. I have all the documents that prove that
the money is not a DRUG money and also CERTIFICATE OF ANTI-TERRORISE and MONEY LAUDERING.
If you can play the role by sending me your details please call me on my private number and also send me your details such as follow:
Full Name:
Contact Address:
Phone Number:
Valid Identification:
Therefore, I think it will be wise for us to claim it instead of leaving it for the Government. The late Mr. Thompson was an American, from the city of Alaska He died together with his wife and their only daughter on board Alaska Airline flight number 261, on 31st of January, 2000. You can read
more about Mr. Morris Thompson and his family's death by clicking on this:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
Dr Jackson Jafah
Posted: 3/15/2005
Hawkeye Valley Area Agency on Aging's (Waterloo, IA) Senior Help Line Operator reported receiving a call from a woman in Waterloo who received a telephone call from a woman posing as a Senior Help Line Operator named "Joyce". "Joyce" was asked for the woman's insurance and Medicare information. The woman did the right thing...She hung up!
Imposters often pose as employees from familiar and trusted organizations. If anyone ever calls you asking for your personal information, no matter how trustworthy they sound, do as this woman did...hang up the phone! Sometimes, it's just plain shrewd to be rude.
Posted: 2/23/2005
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