Experts warn that the rapid expansion in coronavirus cases is going to result in a big increase in elder abuse scams. Although new cases of slowed recently, we are still seeing scams that are being developed that promise to deliver you a COVID vaccine—it will be a fake just like Gucci bags that are commonly counterfeited. Some are posing as being from Medicare or the Social Security Administration. Neither will ask you for sensitive information. In fact, I just got one the other day. I picked up the phone and they asked my name, which I gave to them, then they asked for my date of birth to “verify my identity.â€Â I asked who was calling and they hung up!