Jury Duty Scam

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 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

Yes! 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


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Thanks for the heads up, I'll let my folks and Sister know!