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Posted by Black_Sedan281 (Member # 11498) on :
 
Jury duty- do not delete without reading

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This came across the Marshal Service wire alert. Please take notice.
This is for real. Along with the FBI.Gov we are also looking to this.

Importance: High 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.snopes.com/fraud/identity/juryduty.asp

[ March 13, 2012, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: Black_Sedan281 ]
 
Posted by RONIN (Member # 9987) on :
 
Scum bags ! Hope they catch them, I bet there is some poor old folks who fell for the scam. Messed up, don't know why some don't just get a job and earn their keep like most of us citizens do.

[ March 13, 2012, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: RONIN ]
 
Posted by 04 S281 (Member # 9229) on :
 
So this scam is making a comeback huh? The best scams never die i guess...

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2006/june/jury_scam060206
 
Posted by 66_5.0 (Member # 9974) on :
 
[Mad] My dad told me about this.. But I dont give any info ever!
 
Posted by rwc (Member # 8047) on :
 
iv never responded to any summons they send me.just rip them up and throw them away. iv never gotten a phone call.
 




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