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07-06-2007, 10:19 AM
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JURY DUTY SCAM (from my county police dept)
This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed below) and by the FBI (their link is also listed 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 summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam has surfaced. Fall for it and your identity could be stolen, reports CBS. In this con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who threateningly says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you didn?t show up for jury duty. 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. Sometimes they even ask for credit card numbers. Give out any of this information and bingo! Your identity has just been 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/pressrel05/092805.htm
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07-06-2007, 12:29 PM
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Why do these things have to happen? I'm so tired of being on the "look-out" all the time, ya know?
I hope these people get caught and thrown away!
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07-06-2007, 02:17 PM
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Thanks Tink for the warning!!!
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07-06-2007, 03:24 PM
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Wow! How low are people willing to go?
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07-06-2007, 04:24 PM
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How awful! It's scary how sneaky and tricky people trying to steal your money can be...
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07-06-2007, 06:30 PM
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Scams suck. Janet I totally agree with you. People seem to never give up and no a days you have to always be looking out for the bad guy!
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07-07-2007, 08:47 AM
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I've been thinking about that and other scams going on here. I realized that, actually, we're luckier here than in many other countries. I've heard stories about people being kidnapped for their organs, which are then sold on the black market.
It doesn't make our scammers any less disgusting though. What a lot of bottom feeders there are.
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