These "US HealthCare Supply of Milford, NJ" (real company hiring robocall telemarketers, http://www.ushsnj.com/ ) calls are Medicare fraud on top of any illegal cell calls (fcc.gov issue) or DoNotCall violations (FTC.gov issues). Medicare fraud complaints against the underlying scammer may be lodged by uploading an information doc or pdf file of complaint info, or voice calling, the Office of Inspector General at HHS.gov:
http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/report-fraud/index.asp
1-800-HHS-TIPS (1-800-447-8477)
I was robocalled by this three tier scheme this morning, and then first handed off to someone identifying as John at "American Seniors Assistance", dodging around claiming to be in or working with an agency in Fairfax, VA (from which I'm about 150 miles away). John asked about diabetes and back pain, and when I said yes to both, quizzed me for a date of birth to refer me to the local supplier. Cooperating with his script, but acting confused, it turned out he was working from a list with both my parent's names and my address and DoNotCall registered land line, but did not identify a fake date of birth pretending to be my father as fake. I was caring for my parents from 2002 to 2004, while my father died in 2006 (as to quality of the telemarketer information).
John described "American Seniors Assistance" as a nonprofit organization, which normally is an exception to DoNotCall, but not if it's a fraud, and being used to market Medicare funded DME (Durable Medical Equipment) for which most outbound telemarketing is banned by Medicare law (including for contractors acting on behalf of approved suppliers).
In pretensing my dead father (it seemed John expected to reach my institutionalized mother with severe dementia), I qualified for John's questions and was forwarded to a girl whose name was mumbled rapidly at "H Pas", to find the "agency allocated provider in area". She never spelled out that acronym, which is similar to those of several real healthcare administrator and regulation titles, as others reporting these calls were told "Health Product Assistance for Seniors". The H-PAS girl largely repeated the same questions John used, and offered the "no pain talking meter" and "supplies delivered at no cost", but dodged around what kind of "back pain solution" that "could be worn under or over cloths" would be supplied without a doctor's visit. The talking meter and back brace descriptions are consistent with products featured on US Healthcare Supply's Web site.
This promotion would also appear to be Postal Fraud open to Postal Inspector investigations, as these supplies were promised for delivery by US Mail.
After the H-PAS girl's review of my confused mostly just "yes" answers (in the guise of my dead father), she offered to connect me to the same suppllier others were told, a 2 year old business run by a Jon Letko according to corporate record checks, US Healthcare Supply of Milford NJ. She gave me the phone 855-350-2509 for them when I asked if there was one "just in case we get disconnected". She then forwarded me to them, and a Victor Gonzales, who sounded like an actual American employee for the first time, and not some overseas boilerroom worker. Their info from corporate and directory lookups:
http://www.ushsnj.com/
US HealthCare Supply
(877) 521-1555
US Healthcare Supply LLC
(908) 505-1800
60 Bridge St, Milford, NJ 08848 (also 14 Bridge St., P.O. Box 372)
Jon Letko, Pres.& Manager founded 2009, registered also in Florida 2011
The H-PAS girl told Victor the name, address, and phone the original caller had in his files for my father, and the fake date of birth and diabetes plus back pain conditions I gave him, before dropping off the call she forwarded to him. Victor then started verifying info, but claimed I called them and said they don't call out and that he cannot do business with anyone outwardly called, as if he's either a trained liar or is trained in Medicare marketing law and didn't know his boss is using a criminal scam. Victor denied that his company pays telemarketers to make outbound calls as I received. I asked for his supervisor, to whom he declined to connect me, but did agree to email the boss about my being illegally telemarketed.
Ultimately, the criminal fraud contractors using a variety of fake CID numbers probably via VOIP aren't likely within FTC or FCC jurisdiction. If anyone receives any supplies as a result of a parent falling for this scam, that invites a Postal Fraud complaint. Primarily though, if Jon Letko personally in any present or future company, and the current one US Healthcare Supply LLC of NJ and registered in FL and maybe other states, are banned from doing business with Medicare, their scam is shut down.
HHS OIG Medicare marketing fraud complaints may be phoned in at the number above, or prepared as a simple text file of tipster identified or anonymous information, and then uploaded after some pull down menu routing and category selections using the "REPORT FRAUD NOW" button at the OIG.HHS.gov link above. Specific dates, times, numbers called, and addresses or names they appear to already have are useful, though anonymous complaints are also accepted by both phone and that Web link (and could contribute to the case being made higher priority).
These "US HealthCare Supply of Milford, NJ" (real company hiring robocall telemarketers, http://www.ushsnj.com/ ) calls are Medicare fraud on top of any illegal cell calls (fcc.gov issue) or DoNotCall violations (FTC.gov issues). Medicare fraud complaints against the underlying scammer may be lodged by uploading an information doc or pdf file of complaint info, or voice calling, the Office of Inspector General at HHS.gov:
http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/report-fraud/index.asp
1-800-HHS-TIPS (1-800-447-8477)
I was robocalled by this three tier scheme this morning, and then first handed off to someone identifying as John at "American Seniors Assistance", dodging around claiming to be in or working with an agency in Fairfax, VA (from which I'm about 150 miles away). John asked about diabetes and back pain, and when I said yes to both, quizzed me for a date of birth to refer me to the local supplier. Cooperating with his script, but acting confused, it turned out he was working from a list with both my parent's names and my address and DoNotCall registered land line, but did not identify a fake date of birth pretending to be my father as fake. I was caring for my parents from 2002 to 2004, while my father died in 2006 (as to quality of the telemarketer information).
John described "American Seniors Assistance" as a nonprofit organization, which normally is an exception to DoNotCall, but not if it's a fraud, and being used to market Medicare funded DME (Durable Medical Equipment) for which most outbound telemarketing is banned by Medicare law (including for contractors acting on behalf of approved suppliers).
In pretensing my dead father (it seemed John expected to reach my institutionalized mother with severe dementia), I qualified for John's questions and was forwarded to a girl whose name was mumbled rapidly at "H Pas", to find the "agency allocated provider in area". She never spelled out that acronym, which is similar to those of several real healthcare administrator and regulation titles, as others reporting these calls were told "Health Product Assistance for Seniors". The H-PAS girl largely repeated the same questions John used, and offered the "no pain talking meter" and "supplies delivered at no cost", but dodged around what kind of "back pain solution" that "could be worn under or over cloths" would be supplied without a doctor's visit. The talking meter and back brace descriptions are consistent with products featured on US Healthcare Supply's Web site.
This promotion would also appear to be Postal Fraud open to Postal Inspector investigations, as these supplies were promised for delivery by US Mail.
After the H-PAS girl's review of my confused mostly just "yes" answers (in the guise of my dead father), she offered to connect me to the same suppllier others were told, a 2 year old business run by a Jon Letko according to corporate record checks, US Healthcare Supply of Milford NJ. She gave me the phone 855-350-2509 for them when I asked if there was one "just in case we get disconnected". She then forwarded me to them, and a Victor Gonzales, who sounded like an actual American employee for the first time, and not some overseas boilerroom worker. Their info from corporate and directory lookups:
http://www.ushsnj.com/
US HealthCare Supply
(877) 521-1555
US Healthcare Supply LLC
(908) 505-1800
60 Bridge St, Milford, NJ 08848 (also 14 Bridge St., P.O. Box 372)
Jon Letko, Pres.& Manager founded 2009, registered also in Florida 2011
The H-PAS girl told Victor the name, address, and phone the original caller had in his files for my father, and the fake date of birth and diabetes plus back pain conditions I gave him, before dropping off the call she forwarded to him. Victor then started verifying info, but claimed I called them and said they don't call out and that he cannot do business with anyone outwardly called, as if he's either a trained liar or is trained in Medicare marketing law and didn't know his boss is using a criminal scam. Victor denied that his company pays telemarketers to make outbound calls as I received. I asked for his supervisor, to whom he declined to connect me, but did agree to email the boss about my being illegally telemarketed.
Ultimately, the criminal fraud contractors using a variety of fake CID numbers probably via VOIP aren't likely within FTC or FCC jurisdiction. If anyone receives any supplies as a result of a parent falling for this scam, that invites a Postal Fraud complaint. Primarily though, if Jon Letko personally in any present or future company, and the current one US Healthcare Supply LLC of NJ and registered in FL and maybe other states, are banned from doing business with Medicare, their scam is shut down.
HHS OIG Medicare marketing fraud complaints may be phoned in at the number above, or prepared as a simple text file of tipster identified or anonymous information, and then uploaded after some pull down menu routing and category selections using the "REPORT FRAUD NOW" button at the OIG.HHS.gov link above. Specific dates, times, numbers called, and addresses or names they appear to already have are useful, though anonymous complaints are also accepted by both phone and that Web link (and could contribute to the case being made higher priority).
I am a Special Agent with HHS-OIG in New Jersey. If you receive a call from this company, please document as much as you can, incluing the names of the people with whom you spoke, telephone numbers, etc. if you can record the call, that much better. You can contact me at [email protected] with that information.
They called here about six time a day for the last week. I answered one today, they asked for someone that doesn't exist-my married name and I'm not married. I told them there's no one living here by that name and hung up. If it happens again, I'll know to tell them that they're harassing me
These people also asked for my Medicare number which is my Soc Security number. No way.This is the ushsnj.com business
who called me and I was tranferred 5 times to another person. Then after I said no I got another call from them again. Now I am on the internet to see what others are saying. I did not give them my Medicare number to them,,, who would?