JURY DUTY SCAM
Not fishing related, but important enough to pass on to my friends.
JIMMY D
This has been verified by the FBI (their link is 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
summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their
civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam 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 just got stolen. The scam has been
reported so far in 11 states . This (scam) is particularly insidious
because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into
giving information by pretending they're 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.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
http://WWW.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jury_duty_scam.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
As the FBI states:
Protecting yourself is the key: Never give out personal information
when you receive an unsolicited phone call.
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JIMMY D. MOORE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish & Game Mag,
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited,
Member TOWA, Retired Scout Exec. BSA.
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