New Jury Duty Scam

[theworm[$]]

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 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, including
Oklahoma , Illinois , and Colorado! 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.snopescom/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

[drmomentum[$]]

Never give out your info over the phone if someone has called you; it's almost always a scam.

And almost never give out your info over the phone if you have called them; it might not be a scam, but sometimes your info can be misused.


As a general rule: don't give out your info over the phone.