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[ PRIVACY Forum ] WARNING: Dr. Oz is causing a Gmail Medicare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Wed Apr 15 14:32:47 2026
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:22:56 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
To: privacy-dist@vortex.com
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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
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