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Watch Out for Jury Duty Calls
The bad guys will do anything to elicit personal information. In a disturbing new trend, identity thieves have been posing as government workers and calling people to update them that they have been summonsed for jury duty. The catch is that you have to give them your social security number. Here’s an article with more information. In a recent online shopping story, fear of identity theft may be hurting e-commerce. ME&ME would like to know if you have changed your online spending habits as a precaution. Finally, if you have filed for a tax extension, you may want to be aware of these identity theft prevention tips.
It’s scary that there’s just about trick in the book for grabbing somebody’s identity. I would’ve never thought to look out for something like this.
Consumers should be well educated in Identity Theft matters to realize that no matter what the pretext, never give out your social security number to someone who sought you out, no matter whom they claim to be. We have published several articles and provide lots of tips on deterring Identity theft at http://www.creditlock.com . The FTC also has an excellent website giving tips for iD Theft deterrence.