Have you or someone you know received a call, email or text saying you missed jury duty?
If so, use this link to report this suspicious activity to the Federal Trade Commission.
- Scammers are tricking individuals into believing they failed to report to jury duty and will face consequences from the court if they don’t provide their personal information. Scammers target Social Security Numbers, bank information, credit card numbers, or any other personal identifiable information.
- To combat these “attacks,” courts across the country (federal, state, and local) are adding links on their webpages directing citizens to report such scams to the Federal Trade Commission.
- You can report scams and suspicious communications to the Federal Trade Commission (https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/?orgcode=OHCLERKS).
- The FTC welcomes reports through its portal about any type of scam or suspicious communication, including DMV or traffic fine scams.
- Law enforcement can access these reports once the FTC processes them into the database.
- The public can see aggregate data at the FTC Explore Data page (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/explore-data).
- At present, these court-related reports appear underreported.
- This is a trackable link that will code the report as originating from Ohio Court Clerks. The information goes into the Consumer Sentinel Network, a free database for law enforcement focusing on scams. Thousands of law enforcement professionals have access to the database, including the FBI and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.
