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JURY DUTY identity theft scam

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> Pass this on to your grown children and anyone else you can 
> think of. 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 DUTY 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, Colorado, AZ and more. 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>; 

> And here: 

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp>; Yep! It's 
> true 
>


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