THIEVES TARGET NEW MEDICARE CARDS

(SCAMMERS ARE ALREADY HARD AT WORK TO LEARN YOUR INFO)   It’s finally happening: New, safer Medicare cards start getting mailed this month to all 58 million beneficiaries.  Each will have a unique, randomly generated 11-character Medicare beneficiary identified (MBI) that looks something like this:  1EG4-TE5-MK72. Cards will be randomly shipped over the next 12 months. So if a spouse or friend gets one before you, don’t worry.   The new card will no longer display Social security numbers, which aided scammers in opening fraudulent financial accounts, filing bogus tax refunds and otherwise stealing your money and identity. But crooks...