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Snopes.com has confirmed a Jury Duty Scam
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BlackandBlue
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Snopes.com has confirmed a Jury Duty Scam
avoiding scams in real life

Usually I don't pas son this kind of information, especially on a message board about ARGs, but this one is so easy for anyone that has a phone number or address online to get sucked into:

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. 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.

This has been confirmed by both the FBI and Snopes.com. Read more here: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm and here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

Please make sure and pass this on!

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