I had jury duty yesterday and the Coordinator talked about this in the orientation. 

It's for real and has happened in Deschutes County.

 

Bev

 

 

 

 Subject: Jury Duty Scam

 

If this is a repeat, please excuse, but it is important. This is valid and the explanation is found on the FBI Web page. Click the link below:

Subject: Jury Duty Scam - Please read
Jury Duty Scam DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING!

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 Arizona, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington, 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.<WBR>gov/page2/<WBR>june06/jury_<WBR>scams060206.<WBR>htm
And here: http://www.snopes.<WBR>com/crime/<WBR>fraud/juryduty.<WBR>asp

If the links do not work copy them and paste them in to the address line in your browser.

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