Rose Medlin
Active Member
From: XXXXXXXXX[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:11 PM
To: XXXXXXXXX
Subject: ** New Personal ID Scam using Juries **
Judges, I was asked to forward the information below concerning an alleged ID Scam. The perpetrators portray themselves as court officials and contact citizens concerning jury duty in an attempt to obtain personal identifying information from those citizens. You may wish to remind jurors not to give out any such information to an unidentified person over the telephone.
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 summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.
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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.
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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
Yep! It's true
Please make sure and pass this on! Especially tell the elderly in your family, they are so easily confused, and they are the ones that are the easiest to prey on!! Thanks
Got this at work today from our court administration, thought I would share with you all.
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 3:11 PM
To: XXXXXXXXX
Subject: ** New Personal ID Scam using Juries **
Judges, I was asked to forward the information below concerning an alleged ID Scam. The perpetrators portray themselves as court officials and contact citizens concerning jury duty in an attempt to obtain personal identifying information from those citizens. You may wish to remind jurors not to give out any such information to an unidentified person over the telephone.
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 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: 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! Especially tell the elderly in your family, they are so easily confused, and they are the ones that are the easiest to prey on!! Thanks
Got this at work today from our court administration, thought I would share with you all.
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