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FYI; confirmed by Snopes. Laurie Subject: FW: Identity Theft - JURY DUTY SCAM Theft - JURY DUTY SCAM > -----JURY 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 summons > 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. > > 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
