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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Personal Security - Jury Duty Scam

Pass this on to all you know. This has been verified by the FBI, link provided at the bottom of this post).

This cam is spreading so fast, you need to 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 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.

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 at the FBI site.

Protecting yourself is the key: Never give out personal information when you receive an unsolicited phone call.

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