Jury Duty Scam Warning

[jjenk02]

A friend of mine sent this to me and I felt I should share this, I did check and verify that it was correct>

JURY DUTY SCAM
> >
> > This is actually a real one. And it is nice that the person sending
> > it Included the verifying links to prove it. Anyway, what a great
> > scam to get your social security number.
> >
> > This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed below) and 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 summons For jury duty seriously, but enough people skip
> > out on their civic duty, that A new and ominous kind of scam has surfaced.
> >
> > Fall for it and 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
> > 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 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.
> >
> > Check it out here:
> > http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
> > http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/092805.htm
> >

 

[jckossoy]

There's another one to be careful of also and has been around for several years. If someone calls saying they are from the IRS and they want to verify information. It is illegal for the IRS to do that over the phone. We can only do that via offical correspondence. We get reminders on this every year. It's also found on the irs.gov web site.

Kol Tov,

 

[stevers]

I never give my info to anyone unless its my choose. Like loan apps or at work, stuff like that.
One time someone called saying they were from our credit card company. They explaind why they called then asked for our account number. My response was "why do you need my account number, you should know it." They backtracked and I hung up on them and called my credit card company to tell them about it. That wasn't the first time we have received a BS call like that.
You should ""never"" give your info to anyone you cant confirm the ID of. No one can punish you for being cautious. It's their responsibility to prove their ID.

 

[Geo in Winnipeg]

What Steve said. Legit people like credit card companies, IRS (Canada Revenue up here), Paypal, etc. will never ask you personal questions like this over the phone.

 

[oldsmokey]

Any time you receive a phone call from anyone, NEVER--NEVER--NEVER give out any personnal infromation to them. You NEVER know who you are talking to. I have handled many cases of identify theft from people that gave out information over the phone.

 

[alamocdc]

Great tip! Thanks! And Smokey is dead on. Only give this kind of info when YOU make the call and know who you are calling. Better yet, take it to them.