I'm not sure how common it is these days - I doubt it is as much as it used to be given the rise of cell phones - but I'm sure you all remember a few years ago when long distance service slamming was all the rage. Basically telemarketers, to earn their pay, would just switch your long distance service on you without bothering to get your approval. It happened to me a few times.
A senior I know who had managed to get enrolled in a Medicare D program found herself magically enrolled in a second program when her enrollment information arrived in the mail. Of course you can't be enrolled in 2, and for reasons known only to Mark McClellan it'll take 6 weeks to be disenrolled from the second plan. Until then will her original plan still function? We'll see...
I bet this will be a really really common occurrence.
idiots.
