A jury duty scam has been verified by the FBI (their link is included
below). 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 bee n 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. Check it out here:


http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jury_duty_scam.htm

FBI

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