Jury Duty Fraud. ( Archived) (2)

Oct 16, 2008 2:07 AM CST Jury Duty Fraud.
friendsfirst
friendsfirstfriendsfirstBurbank, Illinois USA105 Threads 1 Polls 5,965 Posts
Jury Duty Scam DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING !

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 summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civ ic 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:
And here:
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Oct 16, 2008 4:28 AM CST Jury Duty Fraud.
trish123
trish123trish123Macclesfield, Cheshire, England UK177 Threads 4 Polls 13,724 Posts
There sure are some slimeballs out there uh oh

You know, what occurs to my mind just now is how unfair a society is which can bail out the bankers to the tune of trillions of dollars but the 'lower strata' of said society are reduced to stealing and all manner of underhand tactics to survive............... not to keep their swimming pools heated or their investments afloat - just to eat.......... sigh
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