OT : Jury duty scams please be aware

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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 summons 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 scammer asks you for your Social Security

number and date of birth so he or she can verify t he 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

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

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