This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed below) and by the FBI
(link also listed below).
Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book and print it
out
to give to your neighbors who don\'t have e-mail. Be prepared should you
get
this call.
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 name,
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 12 states, including Missouri,
Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Arizona, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania,
Minnesota,
Oregon and Washington State. 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.fbi.gov/
page2/june06/
jury_scams060206.htm
http://
www.snopes.com/
crime/fraud/
juryduty.asp they have been tracking
this
since 8-2005