HawkinsHollow
Veteran Member
So I get a message today from a guy claiming he was from the state jury commission. I call him back and we get disconnected after a few minutes of talking before we get tot to the real meat of the conversation. I tried to call back a couple times without reaching him, he finally calls me back and I answer. He says that I missed jury duty in a federal court case, and someone must have signed the registered letter on my behalf and the judge issued a bench warrant for me. Knew my name, phone and address. Said some crap about I had to go down to the courthouse and sign with this machine to see whether or not it was actually my signature on the registered mail or not. Was very convincing, said I need to go now. I told him I couldn't so he said ok I will call you tomorrow and we will set it up. But don't go to the courthouse otherwise you will be arrested, he needed to set it up first. He mentioned a fine of $3500 for each charge and said it cannot be paid over the phone but we will talk more about it tomorrow and then we hung up. Oh yeah, he also said he needed to wait to let me off the phone until his manager Ok'd it. He said he would call tomorrow and he hung up. He talked really fast, had all kinds of statutes and rules he was spouting off about, sounded pretty official. He was African American but spoke perfect English. He wasn't some dude from Bangladesh. All kinds of red flags were going off in my head the entire time; it was really loud in his office, I thought there is no way the wife signed for this thing without telling me, this is not how the Federal court system would handle this, etc. But in the back of my head I thought to myself, I better hear this guy out. Could see how some ppl could fall for it I guess. But no sane person would not get off the phone with them and immediately Google, jury duty scam. It must pay off though or it wouldn't happen. Crazy world we are livin' in!
