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 , and 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.
