Subject: Jury Duty -- Please Read This - 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.
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The
FBI and the federal court system have issued
nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning
consumers about the fraud.
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I never trust anyone who contacts me over the phone especially from a number I don't know. If someone wanted to contact me about something this serious they would do it through certified mail or they might even come right to my door.
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