Jury Duty Scam

RxSkater · Posted: Jun 11, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: Jury Duty Scam

Check this out; its actually a pretty simple and easy scam if you think about it:

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

bmosing · Posted: Jun 11, 2009 9:29 am Post subject:

wow thats messed up. thanks for the heads up man

T-Hawk · Posted: Jun 11, 2009 11:55 am Post subject:

dude that is messed up. I hate lazy a$$ people like that, that just steal because they're too lazy to make an honest living. Rolling Eyes

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

as messed up as it is thats pretty ingenius

RxSkater · Posted: Jun 11, 2009 12:10 pm Post subject:

Mr.TopHat, that's what I was thinking; that would be so easy and also I would never do this but in the pharmacy new patients sometimes writing down their ssn with all their other info, if I was a douche I could easly pull some type of scam off

skimboarder · Posted: Jun 11, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject:

since when are arrest warrants served over a phone?

dylo · Posted: Jun 12, 2009 10:55 am Post subject:

skimboarder, threaten any gullible person in the general public using higher authority and they will tell you everything and anything. they only need 1 person out of every 10 people and they will be very rich