[watsonsh]

We just received this at work so it must be news since our head IT sent it out as urgent.

The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest. You say you never received a notice. To clear it up, the caller says he'll need some information for "verification purposes"-your birth date, social security number, maybe even a credit card number.

This is when you should hang up the phone. It's a scam.

Jury scams have been around for years, but have seen a resurgence in recent months. Communities in more than a dozen states have issued public warnings about cold calls from people claiming to be court officials seeking personal information. As a rule, court officers never ask for confidential information over the phone; they generally correspond with prospective jurors via mail.

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

[AfterMyNap]

This must be going like a runaway train, I got a notice from my credit card warning me of this in Jan. or Feb. Is nothing sacred? I hope whoever gets caught for this gets a jury filled with his victims!

[braingonebad]

LOL, AMN!

I've had jury duty, and all they do is send you a letter. They tell you when and where, you call the day before to confirm. That is it.

I drove all the way up to the courthouse - nobody even looked at my ID - then the case had been settled before we got to hear it. But we were paid mileage anyway.