[TGE-mail] Scam verified by snopes.com

[Anne Moore]

This has been brought to my attention.  There always
seems to be people out there who make life much more
difficult than it needs to be!
 
This message was forwarded to me by one of my fellow
Gateway Greening board members.  Bill 
 
JURY DUTY SCAM:    
 
This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed
below) and 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 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 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
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.
 
Check it out here:
 
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
 
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/092805.htm
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Anne G. Moore
3526 Magnolia, Suite 200
St. Louis, MO  63118-1134
Off 314-772-6263
Fax 314-664-4776
Cell 314-440-6263
gamblemoore1987 at yahoo.com


 
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