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WARNING: Jury Duty Scam

Pizzaguy

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Got this in an email from my attorney's office just now!


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Protect Yourself
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</td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt;" align="left" height="15"> 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 at the FBI website
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Like the snopes article suggested, people give in unquestionably to "authority". This would not happen if this society did not get so anti-constitutional. But if a person feels that their privacy is being invaded, and then questions say, a TSA goon, or perhaps the IRS, we hear horror stories involving them. Then, of course, criminals prey off of this fear and perpetuate their crimes. What can I say? Birds of a feather. I don't know how this nation got all cork-screwed up, but these are the results. Then the real authorities sit on their thumbs up and wonder why this is going on. Disgusting.
 
Tim,

Seems like you and I have disagreed over some topics. But we sure don't now.

That might be post of the day, for it's simplicity and for it's "hitting the nail on the head".
 
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