Re: OT: Jury duty scam

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

and of course ALL groups got canceled for tomorrow.



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"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> damn that reminds me I have jury duty on the 23rd....pita!...but I won't
> know for sure until I call after 430pm on the 22nd...double pita !
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> "alarman" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Jury Duty Scam
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Check it out here:
>> http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
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>> http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
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