Jury Duty Scam - WYA
05-05-2010, 12:02 PM
#1
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Join Date: 06-09-2009
Location: Clinton, Mass
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Jury Duty Scam - WYA
I got this heads-up from Bill (Onie) through e-mail
Subject: Jury Duty Scam
Take a couple minutes and let your friends and family know about this.
JURY Duty Scam
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 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, Texas, 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.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
Yep! It's true
Please make sure and pass this on!
Subject: Jury Duty Scam
Take a couple minutes and let your friends and family know about this.
JURY Duty Scam
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 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, Texas, 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.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
Yep! It's true
Please make sure and pass this on!
05-05-2010, 12:25 PM
#2
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Join Date: 04-26-2009
Location: NE Texas
Posts: 1,222
Wish I had seen this a couple of days ago. I had someone do this to me but luckily (I can't believe I'm saying this) I had gotten pulled over earlier that day for a brake light being out. I didn't get arrested then so I knew there was something weird going on when they called
05-06-2010, 08:04 AM
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Join Date: 02-29-2008
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 165
If I get someone calling me asking for information, I usually say something like "I am in the middle of bathing my infant son / changing my daughters diaper / etc, can I get your phone number and call you back?" They will never give it to you. If they press the issue I say "So you want me to put you above my son / daughter, give me your supervisors name and transfer me right now" usually ends with a click.
My signature says it all.
My signature says it all.
05-06-2010, 08:48 AM
#6
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Join Date: 09-03-2009
Location: Iowa
Posts: 83
I don't have a land line so I am not too worried about it. The only person that answers my cell phone is me and I don't give my number to anyone. The people that have it are people that are important to me (parents, siblings, partner, kids). I can't believe that people are stupid enough to fall for these things still.....well, yeah, I guess I can.
Would have rather it been this scammer on the phone....
Must go by state rules on that.
