Please be advised! This has been verified by the
FBI (their link is also included below). 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. Click here for
information