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 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

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

Sounds like a very clever scam, thank you Counsel.

Team Sergeant

Every jury notice I have recieved has been by mail!!

SSN has never been in the mailing. All other contact has been in person with clerk!

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Thanks for posting that....I have had a similar incident and when the lady on the other end of the phone asked for my social, I told her I would not give it out. She claimed it was the only way she could look up my account. I told her she needed to update her software and promptly hung up. People never cease to amaze me.:rolleyes:

When people ask me for my SSN I now give them this one:

My name is Todd Davis
My social security number is 457-55-5462

http://www.lifelock.com/default.aspx...UNIgodElfWtA:p

No even better give them - Keavin Lawdermilk AKA kevin wise AKA Special Forces MASTER SERGEANT he could use some more friends.:p

Maybe I'll use the same # with different name, Guido Sarduchi.:eek:

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