Scam Alert

Jury Duty Scam DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING !

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 withthe 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