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Pass this on to your grown children. This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

The caller claims to be a jury DUTY coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo, your identity was just stolen.

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma , Illinois , and Colorado . This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system.

The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites , warning consumers about the fraud. Check it out here: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
Yep! It's true.

 

EMAIL NOTIFICATION WARNING

Please keep in mind that messages you send to us by internet email may not be secure. Do not send us any confidential or personal information by email. Unless specified, appropriate follow-up to an email will be determined by the nature of the question, comment, or complaint. To continue click “ok” or “cancel to exit.”

WHAT IS PHISHING?
IT IS A FORM OF FRAUD, SPECIFICALLY USING E-MAIL TO TRICK MEMBERS OF INSTITUTIONS INTO REVEALING THEIR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION, ONLINE BANKING PASSWORDS AND OTHER CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. THESE EMAILS LOOK LEGITIMATE BY USING OFFICIAL LOOKING LOGOS AND ASK FOR VERIFICATION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

HERE ARE SOME WAYS TO SPOT A POTENTIAL PHISHING EMAIL :

- Asks you to provide personal information such as your bank account
number, an account password, credit card number,

PIN number, mother's maiden name, or Social Security number.

- Fails to address you by name.

- Fails to confirm the company that does business with you, such as
referencing a partial account number.

- Warns that your account will be shut down unless you reconfirm your
financial information.

- Warns that you have been the victim of fraud.

- Has spelling or grammatical errors.

DO NOT access links contained in suspicious e-mail to reach any Web page. Instead call the company using a phone number you know is reliable (not one in that e-mail), or type in the website address you know is correct.

Ukrainian Future Credit Union or VISA will never ask you to provide any kind
of confidential or financial details via an e-mail request.