"Several months ago, I received a phone call from a number local to my area of New Jersey. The individual on the phone spoke with an authoritative voice and said he was with the Bergen County Sheriff's Office. The caller then gave me a long case number and told me to write this number down. As he said the case number, I did not even bother writing it down since I already suspected this might be a scam call."
"The caller said he was pursuing a case against me for allegedly not appearing for jury duty even though I had been lawfully summoned for jury service. I politely told the caller that I had not lived in Bergen County for 13 years so I was not lawfully required to serve jury duty there. As a result, I did not know why this individual was harassing me. This threw the scammer off, and he fumbled for what to say next."
A New Jersey attorney received a local call from someone claiming to be with the Bergen County Sheriff's Office who read a long case number and asserted a jury-duty violation. The caller alleged a federal summons and pressed that the county sheriff's office had enforcement authority. The recipient explained not living in Bergen County for 13 years and questioned why a county agency would handle a federal jury matter. The recipient's legal knowledge and jurisdictional questioning unsettled the caller and disrupted the scammer's script, forcing the caller to fumble for a response.
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