Attorney General reports Medicare call scam

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is warning Missourians about a recent increase in robocalls purporting to be a Medicare representative.

The robocall states that the person receiving the call is eligible for top-of-the-line medical braces and that to receive those braces they should press "1" or press "9" to be put on the No-Call list, according to a news release from Schmitt's office.

The Attorney General's Office urges anyone who receives these calls to hang up immediately and not press any numbers. Missourians have pressed numbers in the past and had braces they didn't need, want or order show up on their doorstep.

Schmitt recently filed a lawsuit against a Florida-based company for placing what he said were hundreds of thousands of robocalls to Missourians on the No-Call List trying to sell braces and devices.