Jury Duty Scam!

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Received this email from my son today. Claims it's the real deal. I just pasted it and have no idea if it's urban legend or not. If it isn't, I believe you would like to know about it!

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 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

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You know, that's pretty clever. Any adult can be called up for jury duty, so the target audience is pretty much unlimited.

And in these troubled times in which hundreds of thousands of people are having to live on some sort of benefit, being asked for your social security number (or national insurance number) over the telephone can be a commonplace event.

With hindsight, you'd kick yourself for falling for it, but I can see that scam having a lot of success.

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I think most of the telemarketing calls I've received on the phone are pure scams. For instance some monkey keeps calling saying I have $60,000 in credit card debt and how to consolidate it, funny thing is I have no credit card debt at all.

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I think most of the telemarketing calls I've received on the phone are pure scams. For instance some monkey keeps calling saying I have $60,000 in credit card debt and how to consolidate it, funny thing is I have no credit card debt at all.
It must be the same monkey that is calling me and I get it all excited and on the phone for as long as I can to waste its time so it can't bother someone else because I tell him I am real interested and how much credit can I get?

It asks how much debt do I have now and I tell him the paltry amount that I owe and it says I do not qualify :lol: