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This has been verified on Snopes.com (link listed below) and 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 summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip 
out on their civic duty that a new and ominous kind of scam has 
surfaced.

Fall for it and your identity could be stolen, reports CBS. In this
con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who 
threateningly says a warrant has been issued for your arrest 
because you didn't show up for jury duty. 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. Sometimes they even ask for credit card 
numbers. Give out any of this information and bingo! Your identity 
just got stolen.

The scam has been reported so far in 11 states, including 
Minnesota, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado . This (scam) is 
particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone
to try to bully people into giving information by pretending 
they're 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.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/092805.htm