jury duty scam

Scam callers claiming to be government employees are trying to steal personal information by pretending to collect information for a jury pool. In the scam, officials identify themselves as a "clerk employee" and warn that the person on the receiving end has missed jury duty. They then ask for...

Scammers are resurrecting a classic identity theft scam in more than a dozen states, according to Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY). The senator reminded consumers never to give out personal information during unsolicited phone calls -- especially involving jury duty. "The scam works with a phone...

So you get a phone call from your local courthouse, and it turns out that you've missed jury duty.And there is now a warrant out for your arrest.You protest, of course, that you never received a summons in the mail, and this must be a mistake. Puzzled, the sympathetic but still-stern voice on the...