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Jury Duty Scam
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In the Jury Duty Scam the scammer calls a potential target claiming to work for the local court. The scammer states that the target has failed to report for jury duty, and that a warrant has been issued for their arrest.
The victim, of course, has never received any jury duty notification. The scammer then offers to clear the matter up, and asks the victim for private information for identity 'verification', including the victim's Social Security number, birth date, and sometimes even for credit card numbers and other private information that the scammer needs to commit identity theft.
Court officials rarely call prospective jurors, and generally use the postal service to contact them. Anyone who receives such a call should never give out the requested information. Instead, one should simply hang-up and then telephone their local court-house if they think they may, in fact, have skipped out on jury duty. |
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