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The Jury Duty Scam Keeps on Coming
Posted on May 24, 2007 by
I constantly hear rumblings about the Jury Duty Scam and Tom Fragala has blogged about it previously on this site. Based on this article it sounds like the residents of Florida are getting hit hard by it.
According to the investigators, scheme artists are calling victims at home and threatening them, accusing them of failing to answer a jury summons, then asking for personal, private information such as dates of birth, Social Security numbers and bank and credit card numbers over the phone.
The caller sometimes offers to help the person ‘just this once’ and other times the caller threatens jail time because they missed their jury obligation. Many times the victim is very aggressively harassed, feels defenseless and thinks he has no other choice than to give out his personal information.
The article continues with the tip:
"My first recommendation would be at that time to say, 'Thank you for the call,' and then hang up and call the courthouse,"
Filed under: Fraud, Identity Theft, Scams, Tips
Tags: identitytheft, idtheft, juryduty
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