The Jury Duty Identity Scam

Introduction

By Housewife4Palestine

The following is towards a growing problem in the United States, called Identity Theft.

There is several types of this problem and makes it worse these criminal’s are very imaginative.

The latest information was sent to me, while it was intended to make the global community see, it is catered to the Unites States audience because they are the ones most effected about this growing problem in their country.

While this is just one type of Identity Theft, there is a carload still out there.

The Message:

Most of us take a summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty that a new & ominous kind of scam has surfaced. Fall for it & your identity could be stolen, reports CBS. In this con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who threateningly says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you didn't show up for jury duty.

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 & date of birth so he or she can verify the information & cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information & bingo! Your identity just got stolen.

The scam has been reported so far in 10 states, including Michigan , Ohio , Texas, Arizona , Illinois , Pennsylvania , Minnesota , Oregon , Washington , & 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 & the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

Check it out here:

Jury Rigged

TELEPHONE FRAUD INVOLVING JURY DUTY

THE VERDICT: HANG UP
Don't Fall for Jury Duty Scam