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>JURY DUTY SCAM TO GET YOUR SS # & DATE OF BIRTH - PLEASE READ!!!!:
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>This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below).
>Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book.
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>It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.
>Most of us take summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip
>out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam has
>surfaced. The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest
>that you
>never received a summons for jury duty, the scammed asks you for your
>Social Security number and date of birth so the or she can verify the
>information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this
>information and bingo; your identity just got stolen. The scam has
been
>reported
>so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado. This
>(scam) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over
>the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending
>they're 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:
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http://www.snopes..com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
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http://www.snopes..com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp >
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http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm ><
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm 
