JURY DUTY SCAM

This has been verified on Snopes.com & the F.B.I.

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 summons for jury duty
seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty,
that a new and ominous kind of scam has surfaced.

Fall for it and your identity could be stolen, reports CBS.
In this con, someone cal ls 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 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 11 states, including
Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado .

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.