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 Post subject: Jury Duty fraud scam revisited
PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:31 pm 
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I received this email from a friend. REMEMBER NEVER give out your personal information to ANYONE who calls you. Get the name of the company, phone number and the name of the person who called you. Tell them you will call back. Then look up the phone number yourself. When calling back be sure you have a dail tone and then place the call. Scammers have been known to keep the line open making you think you dialed the number yourself.


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Subject: Jury Duty fraud


Jury Duty Scam DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING !
Pass this on to your grown children. 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 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, ncluding 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:

http://www.potters.org/subject103152.htm

And here:

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=JU ... &x=23&y=11

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