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How prevalent are scams done on doctors? What year were you when you received your first scam call threatening you with imprisonment and hundreds of dollars of fines because your license has been used to traffic opioids, money laundering, and wire fraud, and you are a suspect?
They did their homework with publicly available information to use in their "accusations" against me. I am familiar with financial scams, but as a doctor, this was my first one and hopefully last time I will fall for it.
My experience recently with one of these scammers really opened my eyes. I am on alert when I get a phishing email or text but when the number is included in a secure message from a staffer in my clinic, my guard was down and I carelessly called the number while juggling calls from nurses and attendings about patients, and was hooked for about 10 minutes before the light came on that this is likely a scam and hung up. In hindsight, a google of the number revealed it to be a scam.
PSA to recently licensed physicians and future licensees. Be on guard with every number you are asked to call even if it is a secure message from your clinic.
They did their homework with publicly available information to use in their "accusations" against me. I am familiar with financial scams, but as a doctor, this was my first one and hopefully last time I will fall for it.
My experience recently with one of these scammers really opened my eyes. I am on alert when I get a phishing email or text but when the number is included in a secure message from a staffer in my clinic, my guard was down and I carelessly called the number while juggling calls from nurses and attendings about patients, and was hooked for about 10 minutes before the light came on that this is likely a scam and hung up. In hindsight, a google of the number revealed it to be a scam.
PSA to recently licensed physicians and future licensees. Be on guard with every number you are asked to call even if it is a secure message from your clinic.