Snowboarder117
07-06-2010, 08:47 PM
People be thiefin identities.
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
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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.
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
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