HUMOR: Get swabbed, not robbed with help of Better Business Bureau | Lifestyles

If you got a COVID-19 test in the bay of an abandoned, burned-out Jiffy Lube from a lab technician named Skeeter who asked way too many personal questions, you may have been scammed.

The Better Business Bureau asked me, a semi-trustworthy regional media figure, to warn you, the faithful newspaper readership, about a new con: phony websites and suspicious in-person testing sites used to collect personal and insurance information.

Here’s how it works, according to the Better Business Bureau email I failed to delete:

Several websites appear after an online search for a COVID-19 testing site in your area, and a testing clinic affiliated with a local pharmacy or a pop-up run by a local group is selected.

In one version of this scam, you arrive at the testing site and are asked to complete a form with personal information, your driver’s license and medical insurance cards are photographed. Then,

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