Jury Duty Scam

by taboma Jun 18, 2007 9:28AM PDT

Subject: Jury Duty Scam

Subject: Jury Duty Scam

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 summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam 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 just got stolen. The scam has been reported so far in 11 states, including 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/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

-Kevin

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Print out those reports and links

by Steven Haninger Jun 18, 2007 9:35AM PDT

Keep them handy in case the sheriff shows up. Show them to him and hope he buys your story. If not, let us know where we can come and visit.

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Believe what you want?

by taboma Jun 18, 2007 12:08PM PDT

Steve, Only sending the info to CNET SE.
Did you read the links!? Did you check them out!?

What words of wisdom do you have!?
What should I be looking for?
I wish I were as smart as you are.

One of my friends, who's a moderator, asked me last year?
"WHY DO YOU YOU GO TO THE PIT!!!?" (SPEAK EASY)

I have to think about that question even today.

This is not your Speak-Easy Forum, Steve!!!
Even if you and Ed think so.
It is an international forum.

Wonder what the Mods think!?

Local in San Diago where CNET comes from or Internationally?
Remember that.

-Kevin

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Calm down please

by Steven Haninger Jun 18, 2007 8:27PM PDT

I was making a joke. Maybe it wasn't a good one. Such is why I am here and not on SNL. The jury duty scam is relatively old by now. I have seen this one before and I suspect others have as well.

BTW, I don't try to run this forum and I'm far from being the biggest contributor. I try my best not to be rude and tend to back out of any heated argument. This and the other forums are what the contributors make it. You are a contributor too. You have probably gotten a good view of the many personalities here, know their interests, areas of expertise and......what their hot buttons are. That should be enough info to know whether or not you want to take part. I hope you do. One thing I have found important is to first lose your ego. It does nobody good.

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Calm down please?

by taboma Jun 19, 2007 11:17AM PDT

Steve, Thanks. Not an ego trip on my part at all. If my post sounded like that, I apologize. Just rattling the cage here. Stirring the pot so to speak. So stay cool.
As I have said to you before, I enjoy your posts.

Most of my posts are with the Digital Camera Forum and the Graphic Forum. Those two Forums are interesting. Specially Digital Camera. Joe Randolph is the mod there. A genious! Check it out some time. Lots to learn there. We all help each other to learn more.
More or less a help or learning forum. International and neat.

-Kevin

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Digital photography

by Steven Haninger Jun 19, 2007 8:45PM PDT

Maybe some day I will get more interested. I'm still stuck in the days of celluloid. My camera is a Nikon F2 (SLR) I bought over 30 years ago and I have several lenses. Back then I had my own dark room an could manipulate images the old fashioned way. Dodging, and burning, superimposing, contrast corrections, etc. were done manually with no instant gratification. When I take pix today, I get them digitally scanned but these images are still disappointing to me when I work with them. Film emulsions take resolution down to the molecular level so are still many times more fine than the best digitals. That will improve. The "ideal" digital for me today, plus lenses, would run well over 10 grand. As well, it's doubtful any of these will be around in 30 years. My wife has a basic digital and I use it a little. It's fun and does a decent job of taking snapshots. But, I get the feeling that most camera work isn't done with the camera these days. So, call me a closet purist. I've had the privilege of working with some really nice cameras (Leicas, Hasselblads, etc.) years ago in many formats clear up to 8 X 10. I've processed thousands of images on roll and sheet film and bathed my hands in developers and hypos. Have you heard of Ansel Adams and seen some of his work? Nothing is Photoshopped. Great stuff in B & W. I still enjoy taking pictures when the opportunity arises. Digital is on my horizon but the sun is rising slowly.

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i hear you Steven.....

by jonah jones Jun 19, 2007 8:56PM PDT

my first 'decent' camera was a Pentax spotmatic, loved Pentax! then one weekend i borrowed a friends Nikon F2 ruined me forever.....what a beautiful piece of equipment it was...

i had to sell off most of my stuff a few years back (we hit a rough patch) and all i have left is a Pentax K1000 with a 28-70 zoom (and sadly i don't remember the last time it had film in it)...

jonah "Ansell Adams could dodge and weave with the best" jones

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Pentax was a decent camera

by Steven Haninger Jun 19, 2007 9:21PM PDT

In the US it was marketed by Honeywell. In Japan it was Asahi. Manufacturer's had a way of making the lens mounts proprietary. The Pentax mount was versatile in that many good lens manufacturer's produced optics for that mount at a friendlier price than the mother company. If you really want to get picky, some still say rangefinder types were best. They had the advantage of using the quieter "leaf" shutter. Leica made good ones.

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The scary part...

by C1ay Jun 19, 2007 11:15PM PDT

is the people that would believe that the court system would actually call you in the first place after they've issued a warrant for you. Courts don't work that way. Once the warrant's been issued they will pick you up and talk to you in person instead of calling you to warn you that they're coming for you.

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The scary part?

by taboma Jun 21, 2007 2:31PM PDT

C1ay, I guess some do not how the court work and may be scammed.
Has happened.
Thanks,

-Kevin

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