DNA The scams capitalize on agrowing awareness of popular consumer-marketed genetic tests wherepeople can find out about their ancestry or learn some basic healthinformation.

Authorities in several states are warning about an alleged scamin which people visit senior-living communities and low-incomeneighborhoods, offering to perform DNA tests and collecting information frompeople in government health programs.

The alleged DNA-testing scams appear to be a new twist on an oldtactic, in which people are tricked into giving away personalinformation or participating in medical services they don't need.Perpetrators of such schemes can bill the government for unneeded medical testsand procedures, or use the information they collect — such asMedicare and Medicaid identification data — to commit identitytheft and fraud.

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