--- Robert Rasmussen <rrasmussen7@>
wrote:

> From: "Robert Rasmussen" <rrasmussen7@>
> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
> Subject: Fw: Jury Scam
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 23:53:12 -0500
>
>
> This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed below) and on the
FBI site (their link is also included below).
> Please consider passing this on to everyone in your e-mail 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
scam has surfaced. Fall for it and your identity could be stolen,
reports CBS.
>
> In this con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who
threateningly says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because
you didn't show up for jury duty. 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,
llinois, 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.
>
> Verify it here:
> http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
>
>
> http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/092805.htm
>
> http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
>
>
>
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