[StBernard] Jury Duty Scam

[Westley Annis]

JURY DUTY- DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING
 
Pass this on to your grown children and anyone else you can think of. 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 DUTY 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 , AZ and more. 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.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
And here: 
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp