Beware, this is real. Pass this on, and avoid your identity from being stolen:
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 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 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
Yep! It's true
Please make sure and pass this on!
P.S: If you get a real call from the Jury Summons officer, and you don't want to serve on a Jury, then you can do some of the following:
1). Tell them you have read the Constitution (They don't want intelligent people on a jury).
2). Tell them you listen to Neal Boortz on the radio. (Automatic dismissal).
3). Tell them you are a Conservative Constitutionalist (Again, they don't want people that think).
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