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K-Falls Farmgirl
Chapter Leader
2096 Posts
Cheryl
Klamath Falls
Oregon
USA
2096 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 21 2009 : 10:05:56 AM
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I just received this alert and checked out the site beow FBI It is a Scam Be awarJury Duty Scam
> 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
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Cheryl
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Jury Duty Scam
