COVID-related phone scams are once again on the rise in the U.S.

Three years after a pandemic shut down the country, COVID-related phone scams are once again on the rise The COVID-related phone scams include defrauding Medicare and the IRS. Yahoo News

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COVID-related phone scams are spiking again several years after the COVID-19 pandemic led much of the United States to shut down for a lengthy period, according to a new report from robocall-blocking company Hiya.

Hiya told Insider it's received hundreds of incident reports from its users who described scammers trying to obtain the information on the back of their Medicare cards.

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