JURY DUTY SCAM:
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> >           This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included
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> >           Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book.
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> >           It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.
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> >           Most of us take those summons for jury duty seriously .
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> >           a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.
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> >           The caller claims to be a jury coordinator and there is a warrant
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> >           For your arrest due to not showing up for jury duty.
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> >           If you protest that you
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> >           never received a summons for jury duty,
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> >           the scammer asks you for your
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> >           Social Security number and date of birth
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> >           so he or she can verify the
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> >           information and cancel the arrest warrant.
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> >           Give out any of this information and bingo,
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> >           your identity was just stolen.
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> >           The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states,
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> >           including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado .
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> >           This (swindle) is particularly insidious
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> >           because they use intimidation over the phone
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> >           to try to bully people into giving information
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> >           by pretending they are with the court system.
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> >           The FBI and the Federal Court System
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> >           have issued nationwide alerts on their
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> >           web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
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> >           Snopes site: says this is real fraud.
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> >           http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
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> >           FBI site: warns about the fraud.
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> >           http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm