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
Yep! It's true
Please make sure and pass this on!
1/11/2012
Oak Island Police Dept. 910-278-5595
Special thanks to Crime Stopper Tom Graves.
This notice
has been provided by the Oak Island Police
Department.
