[Rhodes22-list] SECURITY ALERT:JURY DUTY SCAM

[Hank]

Fellow Rhodies,

I received this information this morning.  It is verified true and is not a
hoax.  Please be cautious.

Hank
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Subject: JURY DUTY

Please DO NOT Delete this email!   Make sure you read it.

JURY DUTY SCAM: 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 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 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, Ill inois, 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.


For Confirmation... Check it out on the below links;

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
<http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp>
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm>