Most of us take summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough
people skip out on their civic duty that a new ominous scam has
surfaced in the last several years. This new "jury duty" scam is
the latest in a series of identity theft "phishing schemes". Fall
for it, and whammo, your identity has been stolen.
Debt Consolidation And Credit The first jury duty scam was reported in upper New York State in
2001. Since then it's been reported in at least 13 additional
states, including Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Colorado, Arizona,
California, Maryland, Illinois, New Mexico, Pennsylvania,
Minnesota, Oregon and Washington State.
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Check Credit Rating This 'jury duty' scheme might best be categorized as a "social
engineering" scam and
works something like this:
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Improve Credit Rating Con artists contact people by phone to assert that those they've
targeted have evaded jury duty and warrants are being issued for
their arrest. When the victims rightly protest that they've never
received such jury duty notification, the scammer goes after what
he really wants, (for verification purposes only, of course) which
is his pigeons' personal and financial information. Under threat of
being hauled off to jail unless they succeed in straightening out
this terrible mess, many people, (who would otherwise be more wary
about what they reveal of their personal data), will find
themselves reeling off their birth dates, social security and
credit card numbers in an effort to convince their callers that the
notification had never arrived, or were never meant for them in the
first place.
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Credit Online Rating Report It's easy to see how this might work. The victims are clearly
caught off guard, and are understandably upset at the prospect of
an arrest warrant being issued. It preys upon people's general
unquestioning acceptance of authority and willingness to cooperate
in order to extract from them sensitive information.
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Credit Score Rating Scale How to Avoid Falling Victim to 'Jury Duty' Scams:
Be assured that court workers will very rarely, if ever, telephone
to say you've missed jury duty, or that they are assembling juries
and need to pre-screen those who might be selected to serve on
them. So dismiss as fraudulent any phone
calls of this
nature. Keep in mind that about
the only time you would ever hear, by telephone (rather than by
mail), anything having to do with jury service, would be after
you've mailed
back your completed
questionnaire, and even then only rarely.
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Bad Card Credit Credit People This latest scam reinforces, once again, that you should
never give out bank account, social security, or credit card
numbers over the phone if you didn't initiate the call ~ whether it
be to someone trying to sell you something or to someone who claims
to be from a bank or government department. If such callers insist
upon "verifying" such information with you, have them read the data
to you from their notes, with you verifying it, rather than the
other way around.
Free Credit Rating Report And a word to the wise ~ Carefully examine your credit card and
bank account statements every month, keeping an eye peeled for
unauthorized charges. If you notice anything you didn't approve,
challenge it immediately!
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