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>>>>> 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 civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surf
aced.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
inform
>>>>> action 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:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 surf
aced.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
inform
>>>>> action 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:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
>>>>