[Dupage] [Fwd: Jury Duty Scam]

[Dave Donkers]

Greetings  --

I got this at work today.  It's a bit scary, really, but true. 
The FBI link is real - I checked it.  

DON'T FALL FOR THIS ONE.......

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
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