[pchelpers] Jury duty scam (this is real)

This is real. I checked it out with www.snopes.com.
Below are links to verify.
JURY DUTY SCAM: This has been verified by the FBI
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 summons 
for jury duty seriously, but enough people
skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam 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 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:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel 05/092805.htm 
<http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel%2005/092805.htm> 

Pc ( Dallas)



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