Jury Duty Scam -- be careful!

[alfreda89]

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, so it's coming our way. This (scam) 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. They are *NOT* with the courts, so *DO NOT* give them *ANY* personal
information (i.e. DOB, SSN, address, phone #, work info., etc.)!

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