Two Scams

[Scoops]

Jury Duty Scam
>
> 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 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:
> ******[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]******www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm
> <******[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]******www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm>
>
>
> And here: ******[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]******www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
> <******[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]******www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp>
>
> Also here:
> ******[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]******www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jury_duty_scam.htm
> <******[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]************[THIS SPAM IS A SCAM]******www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jury_duty_scam.htm>
>
>
> Yep! It's true
>
> Please make sure and pass this on! Especially tell the
> elderly in your
> family, they are so easily confused, and they are the ones
> that are the
> easiest to prey on!! Thanks
>
>
>
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>

[Scoops]

sorry forgot about the spam filter.

another email I received: I did not check out any of this...this is how the email was written. The only thing I checked was Snopes and Urban Legends...I got the info below the email..


:90# on your telephone
>
> I dialed '0', to check this out, asked the
> operator, who confirmed that
> this was correct so please pass it on .. . . (l also
> checked out
> Snopes.com) This is true, and
> also applies to cell
> phones!)
>
>
>
> I received a telephone call last evening from an
> individual identifying
> himself as an AT&T Service Technician (could also be
> Telus) who was
> conducting a test on the telephone lines. He stated that
> to complete the
> test I should touch nine(9), zero(0), the pound sign (#),
> and then hang
> up. Luckily, I was suspicious and refused.
>
> Upon contacting the telephone company, I was informed
> that by pushing
> 90#, you give the requesting individual full access to
> your telephone line,
> which enables them to place long distance calls billed to
> your home phone
> number.
>
> I was further informed that this scam has been
> originating from many local
> jails/prisons DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE.
>
> The GTE Security Department requested that I share this
> information with
> EVERYONE I KNOW.
>
> After checking with Verizon they also said it was true,
> so do not dial
> 90# for anyone !!!!!

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As shocking as this may sound, the "nine-zero-pound" story is true ... sort of.

What the warning letter floating around the Net doesn't say is that this scam only works on telephones where you have to dial 9 to get an outside line. Unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users. Dialing "nine-zero-pound" on a residential phone will only give you a busy signal. That's it.

On some business phones, however, dialing "nine-zero-pound" may transfer a call to an outside operator and give the caller the opportunity to call anywhere in the world and charge it to your business' phone bill ... maybe. It all depends on how your business' telephone system is set up. If your company doesn't require you to dial 9 to get an outside line (for example, if you have a direct outside telephone line on your desk or if your company's phone system requires you to dial a number other than 9 to get an outside line) the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you. Also, if your company's phone system is set up so that you cannot make a long distance call once you have accessed an outside line (a lot of companies now limit all outside lines to local calls only), the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you either.

The "nine-zero-pound" story only affects those businesses that require you to dial 9 to get an outside line and then place no restrictions on who or where you can call once you get that outside line. And, just to be anal-retentive, let me say one more time that, unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users. [It also probably doesn't affect non-U.S. telephone users. This is especially true for British telephone users whose telephone system is so complex that NO ONE in the UK knows how to use BT's phones (although I am sure that BT users are currently dealing with some sort of "dial q-seven-pi-cromwell-eleventeen-tomato" scam)].