Jury Duty Scam

[dicksbro]

I just got this in an email. According to the email, this has been checked at www.snopes.com and this is TRUE !!

JURY DUTY SCAM:

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below).

It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously. 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 New York , Oklahoma , Florida , Illinois , Texas 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.

Snopes site: says this is real fraud.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

FBI site: warns about the fraud.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

[Oldfart]

Identity thieves should be branded and sent to swim in the grand Abyss.

[jseal]

Oldfart is getting mellow in his old age.

[wyndhy]

it never fails to amaze me how many peeps fall for stuff like this. never, never, never give out your soc, or other personal info, to anyone whom you yourself have not solicited first.

[gekkogecko]

I heard about this a while back. Snopes reports the status of this scam as real:

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


Bah, sorry, DB, I'm mostly still asleep. Yeah, you already posted that.