Check Who Is Calling You

Crooks checking cashing and identify stealing scams are rampant. The"Jury Duty Scam" is notorious for obtaining Social Security number information. In this roust, the scammer claims to be calling for a judge and notifies the victim that a warrant’s been issued for their arrest.

Why? Because they have skipped jury duty and where informed of the obligation. The scam artist then checks and verifies their address and compares their Social Security numbers with the one on file. After they get the number, the caller informs the victim: "I must of had the wrong person, sorry." and hangs up.

Couple that information with the PIN number to an electronic checking, savings, credit card numbers and the con artist hits his placer deposit. The lesson is, don’t give sensitive financial information to any caller.

Banks hardly ever email you. Con artist can set up an Internet site that looks like the real professional entity to fool someone. A recent new report informed us that many of the con artists moved into Iran where they are free from prosecution. Iran is reported to harbor a huge U.S. currency counterfeit money laundering operation.