Hello To All My AdlandPro Friends & Family,
I received this email this evenning talking about another very serious scam going on...this one is very scary, so be very careful. Make sure to share this information with everyone you know so that no one will have to deal with identity theft!
Thanks very much!
God Bless,
Marilyn
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Jury Fraud -
Yes, it's been verified. Hadn't heard of it before, so thought I'd pass it
on.
Naomi
This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed below) and 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 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. Give out any of this information and bingo!
Your identity just got 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.snopescom/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/press%20rel05/092805.htm
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