ALERT - JURY SCAM - ALERT

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ALERT - JURY SCAM - ALERT

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This is a posting sent to county offices from the Napa County District Attorney, Consumer Affasirs Div.

Jury Duty Scam

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Please warn the seniors in your family about this as they are being targeted. 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 this information and your identity has just been stolen.

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including California, 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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