Thread: Jury Duty Scam

Most importantly, never give ur SS# or personal info to any1 CALLING you

Subject: Jury Duty Scam

Jury Duty Scam


Pass this on to your friends and grown children. 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: [Links for members only! Click Here To Register...] <http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm>

And here: [Links for members only! Click Here To Register...] [Links for members only! Click Here To Register...]

Oh. Yup. Something we all need to be aware of, and always be sure to NEVER give out our personal information.