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Richard Harrison

JURY Duty Scam

  • 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 DUTY 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,AZ and more. 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!