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.
The first jury duty scam was reported in upper New York State in 2001. Since then its 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.
This jury duty scheme might best be categorized as a social engineering scam and works something like this:
Con artists contact people by phone to assert that those theyve targeted have evaded jury duty and warrants are being issued for their arrest. When the victims rightly protest that theyve 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...
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