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Off The Trail => Politics/News/Drama => Topic started by: Ranger Dave on September 16, 2011, 01:04:03 AM

Title: scam
Post by: Ranger Dave on September 16, 2011, 01:04:03 AM
Pass this on to your grown children and anyone else you can think of. 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 DUTY 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, AZ and more. 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 (http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm)

       And here:

    http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp (http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp)
Title: Re: scam
Post by: Jjay78 on September 16, 2011, 07:01:57 PM
people need to stop screwing others over to benifit themselves... if you do something like that to someone then you should be shot...
Title: Re: scam
Post by: 85cHeavyMetalBogger on September 16, 2011, 07:21:56 PM
Quote from: Jjay78 on September 16, 2011, 07:01:57 PM
people need to stop screwing others over to benifit themselves... if you do something like that to someone then you should be shot...
i agree,
Title: Re: scam
Post by: burl on September 16, 2011, 10:11:45 PM
Yessir agree with jjay
Title: Re: scam
Post by: KORNBREAD on September 23, 2011, 01:31:02 PM
Thanks for telling us about that Dave. Passing this on to my Family and Friends.