I received this from a fiend who works for Milwaukee County:
(sent to Notes_All, Courts_All, DA_All)
Fw: Jury Duty scam is real
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.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
