JURY DUTY SCAM

[jfreeman420]

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 summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on

their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam 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 just got stolen. The scam has

been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois, and

Colorado. This (scam) is particularly insidious because they use

intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving

information by pretending they're with the court system. The FBI and

the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web

sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

I also got a link to more information on the FBI website but I don't think we want a link to that from here..

[section8]

Here's a link to more info, this has actually been around for a while.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp