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

thanks for letting us know!! I hadnt heard this one...

I used to be a jury coordinator, as part of a former position, although it was just on the municipal level. When and if you call someone about a summons, (which is RARE) your number must come up to them as available, and you are required to identify yourself.

I have never seen a case of an arrest warrant being issued. Never. If you miss or forget or whatever, they just reschedule you.

I like that you posted this, but it's very sad to me that anyone would fall for it. You never ever give your SSN out over the phone. Even places that acually have it only ask for the last four digits.

never ever ever ever give your SS number to anyone on the phone. or your account numbers or any of that stuff

no one legitimately will ever ask for it

I never have and never will give out that sort of information to anyone. I don't care who they claim to be.
If they are legitimate, they will give me their information and I can verify it thru calling the court systems or going to the courthouse myself.
Oh I hate scammers

I use "lifelock" ..

haha

The irony to me....is that your SSN is not to be used as a form of Identification....

At least that is how it was originally intended ......and it is written on my card......

Mama MIA!!

Thank you msmyka!!

Passing it on!!

years ago i got a call from the court house on a jury duty letter that went back to them, im not sure as of why, for i never got it and they said it was for nov they called me much later on, and i told them that in nov i was in the hospitol... i told them my situation and they took me off jury duty all together, which was fine with me


i just looked at that link.. jury duty or anyone in the courts would not ask for your credit card number over the phone...

When I was married, we had accounts with XYZ banks. We would get calls from a foreign country, with the person wanting to talk about our accounts. Sometimes it was about a new loan, or new credit card account, sometimes they said it was about a problem with the account, when it was really a sales call. I generally assumed it was some sort of scam and called the bank's regional office in Ohio. Sure enough they had outsourced this to the Philippines. I told them I didn't think too many people would be interested in giving out their banking information to non-native English speakers who didn't seem to know who they were talking to, and misleading them too.

Banks tell you to watch out for scams, then use the same techniques to contact you. WTF???

I closed my accounts with them.

I refuse to give out my number over the phone. I am extremely reluctant to even give it out on a form. First of all, it's nobody else's damn business what my number is. Secondly, I have a name. I am not known as (or by) a number.

For some reason, these folks at these companies seem to get all upset and defensive with me when I ask for THEIR Social Security Number in return for mine. I don't understand it. I mean, fair is fair, yeah?

I won't even give out my phone number over the phone

isn't it hilarious when you receive a call (solicitor) and they ask you for your number

If you don't hear your ph. ringing........it's me

When I was in college, everybody's student ID number was their soc. number. It was right there on the plastic card for everybody to see.