CHICO — The growing uncertainty amid the government shutdown has made way for a litany of scams, and as has been the case for years, Medicare is a prime target.

We all know by now that scammers particularly like to take aim at the elderly and have no shame whatsoever in doing so. See one of my previous columns where a scammer successfully stole $100,000 from a local woman via a cryptocurrency scam. This is bad enough, but now, during a time when people are genuinely concerned about the future of their health care, scammers are utilizing that fear to push already stressed people to fall for more grifts.

Many of these scams will likely be done over the phone as that tends to be a means of communication for the elderly, though, of course, they can come from just about any medium.

The scamm

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