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Jury Duty Scam Alert

I am posting a forwarded email that I received. There are 2 links that verify the truthfulness of this email.

Jury Duty Scam: Please DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING!*
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:..

https://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And here:

https://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp


Yep! It's true.

Please make sure and pass this on! Especially tell
the elderly in your
family, they are so easily confused, and they are the
ones that are the
easiest to prey on!! Thanks.

posted on Jan 25, 2009 2:02 PM ()

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