Have you ever heard about Jury Duty Scam?

Question

NEVER GIVE OUT CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ON THE PHONE, ESPECIALLY IF THEY CALL YOU!!

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). 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 scam er 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 . 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

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

wow this is new to me, so as a citizen i did my duty and posted here so pass this along to your friends and watch out.

what else people will do to s***w us.

Answer 1

This is out of control! Thank you for sharing!

Answer 2

This is not new but does have a twist to it. Anyone who falls for this is not a person I want on a jury!

Answer 3

Thank you for your information!

Answer 4

Thank you VERY much for including the link to snopes.com in your question... snopes is the first thing I check when I get e-mails like this.

Answer 5

yeah, i've heard of these scams, the jury duty notice itself warns of fraud.

what can i say.. these kinds of people are evil and poor saps are constant.. otherwise.. these scams wouldn't be working.

its a double edged sword, evil people that scam

and idiots that get scammed.

i think folks need to study up on massive preventative measures to avoid getting scammed.

minor paranoia is not a bad thing.