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Fraud Alert- Jury Duty Scam

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Jury Duty Scam



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> JURY DUTY SCAM:
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> This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below).
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> Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book.
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> It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.
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> Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously
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> a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.
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> The caller claims to be a jury coordinator.
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> If you protest that you
> never received a summons for jury duty,
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> the scammer asks you for your
> Social Security number and date of birth
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> so he or she can verify the
> information and cancel the arrest warrant.
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> Give out any of this information and bingo,
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> your identity was just stolen.
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> The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states,
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> including New York, Oklahoma, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Colorado.
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> This (swindle) is particularly insidious
> because they use intimidation over the phone
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> to try to bully people into giving information
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> by pretending they are with the court system.
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> The FBI and the Federal Court System
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> have issued nationwide alerts on their
> web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
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> Snopes site: says this is real fraud.
> http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
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> FBI site: warns about the fraud.
> http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
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