SMP has been receiving complaints of unsolicited callers using COVID-19 to prey on beneficiaries.
A dozen federal officials offer advice to outsmart coronavirus scammers.
They will stop at nothing to exploit the pandemic.
They have to pay almost $1 million in restitution.
The financial total for the scheme is alleged to be more than $6 million.
One has been accused, separately, of false Alzheimer’s diagnoses.
There are no FDA-approved cures, tests, or vaccines.
Scam artists are using the pandemic to try to steal Medicare numbers.
Complaint alleges she agreed to be paid kickbacks on a per-test basis for COVID-19 tests.
He and others acquired DNA samples and Medicare information from hundreds.
Complaint says he accepted kickbacks for sending pharmacogenomics testing orders.
Scheme included vitamin C infusions for frontline workers and COVID-19 patients.