Security Thief Precautions

Submitted by Glory - thanks, much appreciated

Subject: securing your Identity against Identity thief, through emailing and ultra ray beam, through ones purse or wallet


SECURITY TEAMS have recently suggested stainless wallets and card holders for folks to use as this blocks RFID scanning on your cards to prevent ID theft - crooks can now be standing near you, pointing a card reader at your purse or pocket and reading all your private information on the magnetic strip from your license and credit card. They do not have to be beside you at the register or within 10 feet when you take it out of your wallet anymore - I for one am investing in this for myself. Here is a link to the information:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=stainless+steel+wallet+for+women&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=7170614460265417041&sa=X&ei=dAciTrX5DciCgAeH5s2-Cw&ved=0CHIQ8wIwAQ

http://www.examiner.com/gadgets-in-philadelphia/rfid-theft-the-silent-threat-you-will-never-see-coming

http://hubpages.com/hub/A-RFID-Blocking-Wallet-Can-Prevent-Identity-Theft



Subject: Jury Duty Scam
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Pass this on to your grown children and anyone else you can think of. 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 those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.


The caller claims to be a jury DUTY 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 was just stolen.

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma , Illinois , and Colorado , AZ and more. This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are 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.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And here:

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

Yep! It's true