Warning: Jury Duty Scam
Submitted by Clay Carey on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 20:05I got this e-mail today. Please pass it on to those you know. Thank you
YOUR servant for freedom, Clay Carey
JURY DUTY SCAM
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
And here:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
Yep! It's true
Anyone willing to divulge sensitive info out of fear
Deserves the repercussions of sacrificing freedom for 'security'!
Unfortunately those "victims" are representational of the ignorance and liberty-void jurys that determine many a patriots fate.
A patriot must always be prepared to defend his country from his government.
lol that you just have to
lol that you just have to call someone and act like a dick to get them to believe you're the government.
Bring people with you. Get people to go who normally wouldn't. Multiply your vote!
How to combat it
Tell your peeps how to handle this - it's easy!
Ask the scammer for his phone number, as you have to get your SSN from the safe, in the den, but your wife/husband has the combination and you need to contact her/him for it.
It shouldn't take too long, unless wifey/hubby is busy.
You should be able to call the scammer soon, in order to rectify the situation.
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I doubt they will give out the phone number.
That is a good plan. Bumping
That is a good plan.
Bumping for a new day.