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Jury Duty Scam DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING !
This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book.
It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.
Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough
people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has
surfaced.
The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest
that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for
your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the
information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of
this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.
The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including
Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado. This (swindle) is particularly insidious
because they use intimidation over the phone to try to
bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court
system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on
their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
Check it out here:
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
And here:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
Yep! It's true
Please make sure and pass this on!
Especially tell the elderly in your family, they are so easily confused, and
they are the ones that are the easiest to pray on!! Thanks
This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book.
It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.
Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough
people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has
surfaced.
The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest
that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for
your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the
information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of
this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.
The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including
Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado. This (swindle) is particularly insidious
because they use intimidation over the phone to try to
bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court
system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on
their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
Check it out here:
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
And here:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
Yep! It's true
Please make sure and pass this on!
Especially tell the elderly in your family, they are so easily confused, and
they are the ones that are the easiest to pray on!! Thanks