Jury Duty Scam... - Political Forum

sglaine · 01-05-2007, 09:14 AM

Subject: Jury Duty Scam

JURY DUTY SCAM:
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> This has been verified on [1] Snopes.com (link listed below) and 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 scam has surfaced. Fall for it and your identity
>could be stolen, reports CBS. In this con, someone calls pretending to
>be a court official who threateningly says a w arrant has been issued
>for your arrest because you didn't show up for jury duty. 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 just got stolen.
> The scam has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma,
>Illinois, and Colorado. This (scam) is particularly insidious because
>they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving
>information by pretending they're 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:
1. http://snopes.com/
2. http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
3. http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

GreatScott · 01-26-2007, 07:09 PM

Thanks, you hope everyone knows this, but it's amazing how successful these scammers are.

sglaine · 02-01-2007, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by GreatScott

Thanks, you hope everyone knows this, but it's amazing how successful these scammers are.

Your right there and must of them get away with scamming fine folks. Shit last week alone I got 5000 spam emails on Viagra alone.

Louis Linng · 02-05-2007, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by sglaine

Your right there and must of them get away with scamming fine folks. Shit last week alone I got 5000 spam emails on Viagra alone.

Gee I don't get those email scams maybe everyone has figured out I've a perpetual "hardon"!