New Jury Duty Scam springs up across the US
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A new Jury Duty Scam has sprung up across nine states in the US. The scam attempts to con people by telling them they failed to turn up for assigned jury duty. Over the last three weeks, the scam was reported as active from Illinois, Arizona, Minnesota, Michigan, Oregon, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Texas states.
In the scam, fraudsters call up pretending to be officials from local courts. The fraudsters would claim respondents failed to turn up for assigned jury duty. Consequently, an arrest warrant had been issued against their name.
This would be enough to catch most people off guard. Ignoring their protests of innocence, the callers would hustle them and ask them to rattle off their personal information including social security numbers, birth dates and credit card numbers. If someone dared to ask why, they’d reply this was for verification of their identity.
Resident of these states should be wary of the scam. As a rule, they must remember courts never call up people for official work. Especially for jury duty, the courts exclusively use postal mail for any correspondence.
Source: Identitytheftdaily.com
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January 12th, 2009 at 7:08 am
[...] New Jury Duty Scam springs up across the US [...]
January 21st, 2009 at 7:48 am
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