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Jury Duty SCAM
Pass this on to your grown children. This has been verified
by the FBI and SNOPES(their links are also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book.
This first came out in 2005. 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 . 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
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