SCAM ALERT _ JURY DUTY PHONE CALLS

 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://wwwfbi.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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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