Thought I pass this email warning along!

Please read this, it is very important!

Jury Duty ~ 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 the 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 summon s 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 has just been stolen.

The scam has been reported so far in 11 states. 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.

Pass this on.

I checked Snopes and this is for real. Here is the link if you want to check it out.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

i saw this about 2 or 3 months ago.and as for the scammers it's a pretty good one.bet theres lots of people that will fall for it.i'd say give me your phone number and i'll call you right back to verify that this is legit.they ain't gonna give ya a phone number period,