Preventing Fraud Home Care Path

Home Care Path www.homecarepath.com staff are consistently monitoring avenues of fraud to help prevent an occurence in the seniors home. Some common avenues of fraud include:
- door to door home improvement sales visitors most often seen following a storm
- phone calls where the caller knows the seniors name, but the senior is unaware of who is calling examples include marketing, or donation requests
- mailings identifying the senior as a winner or promising a gift
- door to door magazine sales, young children passing through town
- visitors claiming to be disabled asking for cash, example visitor is claiming to be deaf and asking for money for college
- any phone calls requesting bank account numbers or social security number
- internet emails requesting personal information to correct a problem for the senior
- person attempting to sell a vehicle to a senior who has no valid drivers license
- visitor selling gap health insurance policy to a senior who is dual eligible, having both Medicare and Medicaid which would pay for needs beyond the Medicare benefit limit
- emails that offer to save money by buying in bulk
- visitors asking for advance payment for next seasons snow removal
- emails offering inexpensive cruise ship trips for payment today
- mailings for auto club member ships for seniors with no valid drivers license

Home Care Path staff encourage the entire community to keep a watchful eye out for scammers working near by. Communication is the key to fraud prevention.