WARNING: Dr. Oz is causing a #Gmail #Medicare nightmare!

[lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org]

WARNING: Dr. Oz is causing a #Gmail #Medicare nightmare!

I just got word today that Dr. Oz -- head of Medicare Services -- who spent his TV career touting a variety of bizarre "cures" for all manner of diseases -- excuses Trump's eating habits saying Trump believes Diet Coke kills cancer cells and fast food has the highest quality control.

This isn't funny. Worse, his presence is contaminating Medicare email as delivered to Gmail. Word is out that Medicare -- which sends a variety of important emails to recipients -- sent a "Dr. Oz Health Newsletter" to the Medicare email list -- an email full of typical Dr. Oz hype.

This was so bad that Gmail -- quite reasonably -- categorized it as spam and gave it a red banner -- "potentially dangerous, risk of personal information being stolen".

I was asked to try determine if this message was legit or not -- legit Medicare messages going into spam would be a major problem.

My analysis at this moment -- subject to change -- is that it was probably a legitimate Medicare message, seemingly sent through a normal government email delivery system. I welcome anyone else's analysis.

Legit or not, having a "personality" like Dr. Oz -- with his history -- being the focus of important government emails is an email delivery disaster waiting to happen.

L