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Tuesday morning I had a call from an Alva resident about a scam. She and her husband received some Covid-19 home tests in the mail that they had not ordered. The paperwork asked them to call a phone number if they didn’t order the tests and received them in error. It also told them that Medicare covers eight free Covid-19 tests a month. Consulting with a family member, they decided the tests were a ploy to get Medicare numbers.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says scammers are calling and running websites, online and television ads to try to convince people to give their Medicare informatio...