Subject: Jury Duty Scam
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> DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING !
> Pass this on to your grown children. 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/
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