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Jury Duty Scam
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JURY DUTY SCAM - This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed
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 summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on
their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam has surfaced.
Fall for it and your identity could be stolen, reports CBS. In this
con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who
threateningly
says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you didn't
show
up for jury dut y. 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. Sometimes
they even ask for credit card numbers. 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
&nbs p; 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.
David A. Enos
Special Agent
Internal Affairs Division
US Postal Service
Office of Inspector General
Desk: (703) 248-2394
FAX: (703) 248-4692
I did look it up on Snopes and they verify that it is a real fraud:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp