projlightning
03-27-2008, 10:58 AM
SORRY IF IT'S A REPOST:tu:
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 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 (http://hostedmailsecurity.symantec.com/redir/?n64NO9EVodFzxP2abNI04WgBN6FD5J8-DwyT3XKo8JNb2JbqHiXBQXKs0gTvDXTLuZXTKrKrEvIOsqH0Gs pr0yvYEkrzIbuhzlJrBPqab1EVudEFTsvsKCMyrhudyU2F6y02 6UBzh07dPb6y0oJGFKvxYY1NJ4SCrj73CbLI6O_Cyb6p8)
And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp (http://hostedmailsecurity.symantec.com/redir/?n64NO9EVodFzxP2abNI05i5lLFO-mz9nYtzHq62bsiO3sOT0YTvDXTLuZXTKrKrEvIOsqH0Gspr0yv YEkrzIbuhzlJrBPqab1EVudEFTsvsKCMyrhudyU2F6y026UBzh 07dPb6y0oJGFKvxYY1NJcSCrj73CbLI6O_Cyb6p8)
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 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 (http://hostedmailsecurity.symantec.com/redir/?n64NO9EVodFzxP2abNI04WgBN6FD5J8-DwyT3XKo8JNb2JbqHiXBQXKs0gTvDXTLuZXTKrKrEvIOsqH0Gs pr0yvYEkrzIbuhzlJrBPqab1EVudEFTsvsKCMyrhudyU2F6y02 6UBzh07dPb6y0oJGFKvxYY1NJ4SCrj73CbLI6O_Cyb6p8)
And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp (http://hostedmailsecurity.symantec.com/redir/?n64NO9EVodFzxP2abNI05i5lLFO-mz9nYtzHq62bsiO3sOT0YTvDXTLuZXTKrKrEvIOsqH0Gspr0yv YEkrzIbuhzlJrBPqab1EVudEFTsvsKCMyrhudyU2F6y026UBzh 07dPb6y0oJGFKvxYY1NJcSCrj73CbLI6O_Cyb6p8)