Fake BORIM Investigation/Extortion Scam Targeting Physicians
Physicians across the country continue to receive scam calls from individuals posing as investigators from their state licensing board or the DEA. The caller will falsely state that the licensee is under investigation and that their medical license is in jeopardy or has been suspended. The caller might ask for additional information including NPI, DEA registration number, financial information and may state that the call was being recorded on a secure line. The scam calls may also show up as the Board of Medicine’s main number. If you receive a call, please consider the following:
No employee of the Board of Medicine will ever contact you by email, text or phone and demand money.
No employee of the Board of Medicine will ever contact you by email, text or phone and request confidential personal information, account information and force you to respond immediately.
If you receive a call such as the one described above, please contact the FBI’s Boston Field Office at 857-386-2000 or the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) Duty Line at 571-362-8487. You may also report the threat with the FBI online at https://ic3.gov. If you receive a call, email or text from an individual claiming to be from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, you may call our office at 781-876-8230 to confirm a member of the BORIM team is attempting to contact you.