Scammers are still pretending to be the police, calling to say you’ve missed jury duty and need to pay. But in a new twist, some scammers are now telling you to visit a website to enter your personal information — all so they can steal it and your money.
It starts with a call that sounds like it’s from an officer in your local police department. (It’s not.) They claim you missed jury duty (you probably didn’t) and will be arrested unless you visit a website to pay a fine (still no).
They send you to a site that looks legitimate, with an official-sounding URL and government-looking seals (all fake). It’ll ask you to enter your birthdate and Social Security number to “look up how much you owe.” It might ask you to pay up to $10,000 in fines on the site, or send you to a “government kiosk” (no such thing) to pay by cryptocurrency. But every bit of this is a scam.
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