WARNING! Jury Duty
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:08 am
JURY DUTY- DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING
Pass this on to your grown children and anyone else
you can think of. 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
Pass this on to your grown children and anyone else
you can think of. 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