百草园按：请大家一定要必须必、坚决坚地读这篇博文。事关重大，这是警察局正式发出的通告。小心美国的电话骗子！

来自美国联邦调查局的警告：

电话响了，你一接电话，里面的人说他是法院工作人员。紧接着这人说，由于你的错误，你没按政府要求去做法院陪审员，现在已经对你发出逮捕令了。立马，你急赤白脸地分辨，我没收到任何让我去当陪审员的通知啊！上当了吧？对方说，为了澄清这件事，我们核对一下你的信息吧。这下好了，人家要你的出生年月日，社会保险号，甚至可能你的信誉卡号。

百草可没功夫翻译这个通告。

长话短说吧，这是美国老早就有的欺骗方法。大家只需记住一件事，绝不在电话上给任何你不知道的人你的个人信息，不管他是谁，不管他咋吓唬你，就是他说他在电话那头要开枪了，你要做的就是一件事，马上挂断电话！

这是骗子利用你的恐惧心理，实行诈骗。他会用你给的信息，席卷你银行的存款。千万小心啊！

目前如下州已经发现这个诈骗行为：

Florida, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Oregon, California, Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Hampshire

附警察局的原文： 

Warning from the FBI:

The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest.  You explain that you never received a jury duty notice. To clear it up, the caller says he’ll need some information for “verification purposes” – your birth date, social security number, and maybe even a credit card number.

THIS IS WHEN YOU SHOULD HANG UP THE PHONE.  IT’S A SCAM!

Jury duty scams have been around for years, but we have seen a resurgence in recent months. Communities in more than a dozen states have issued public warnings about cold calls from people claiming to be court officials seeking personal information. As a rule, court officers never ask for confidential information over the phone; they generally correspond with prospective jurors via mail.

The scam’s bold simplicity may be what makes it so effective. Facing the unexpected threat of arrest, victims are caught off guard and may be quick to part with some information to quickly diffuse the situation. “They get scared first,” says an FBI Special Agent in the Minneapolis field office who has heard the complaints. “They get people saying, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m not a criminal!  What’s going on?’” That’s when the scammer dangles a solution – a fine, payable by credit card that will clear up the problem.

With enough information, scammers can assume your identity and empty your bank accounts.

“It seems like a very simple scam,” the agent adds. The trick is putting people on the defensive, then reeling them back in with the promise of a clean slate. “It’s kind of ingenious. It’s social engineering.”

In recent months, communities in Florida, New York, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Oregon, California, Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Hampshire reported scams or posted warnings or press releases on their local websites. The federal court system has issued a warning on the scam and urged people to call their local District Court office if they receive suspicious calls. The FBI also suggests that victims call their local FBI field office.

The jury scam is a simple variation of the identity-theft ploys that have proliferated in recent years as personal information and good credit have become thieves’ preferred prey, particularly on the Internet. Scammers might tap your information to make a purchase on your credit card, but could just as easily sell your information to the highest bidder on the Internet’s black market.

PROTECTING YOURSELF IS THE KEY: Never give out personal information when you receive an unsolicited phone call or email request.

For more information on scams, you can go to www.fbi.gov or www.snopes.com