Kreisman Law Offices Professional Corporation
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago naming several United States and Canadian companies as defendants. The allegations in the complaint allege that these companies acted on a medical discount scam that targeted seniors.
According to the FTC’s lawsuit, seniors in the United States were victims of deceptive telemarketing telephone calls that proposed phony discounts on prescription drugs. Some of the calls even pretended to be associated with Social Security, Medicare or a medical insurance company.
According to the FTC, the telemarketing phone calls pitched a prescription drug discount card that would supposedly provide big discounts or even free subscription drugs for seniors. Many of the victims believed they needed to purchase this card in order to continue to receive Social Security benefits, Medicare or other medical insurance. The sale of the discount card was a part of the scam. Discount cards that these companies were selling to seniors were actually free by simply calling a toll-free telephone number or visiting a website.