Jury Duty

Jury Duty

I just read a story online that Gulf Residents should be weary of. People are calling and saying that you may have missed jury duty, and that there is a warrant out for an arrest. Its almost like a phishingThe act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and credit card, social security, and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has. The Web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information. phone call scamA confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; if you want to call it that.

Full story is here in case you know of someone that might be affected by this.
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1199009800892...

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And I bet they get away with it a lot because people are naturally scared of getting in trouble by the government or court system. People should become more educated about what the government can and can't do though. Check everything out for yourself!

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