Petersburg man almost lost $1k to jury duty phone call scam

One Petersburg man was almost scammed out of $1,000 in a jury duty scam that is making its way through the commonwealth.
The latest trick con artists are using to swindle people across central Virginia out of their hard-earned cash is to call and say you have missed jury duty, and you now have to pay a significant amount of money or get locked up.
On Thursday, April 20, a scammer called Wayne Carter and told him he had missed a nonexistent jury duty summons back in March. Carter had already served jury duty twice and the longer the call went on, the more suspicious he became.
“They went on to say that if I did not turn myself in, then there was a warrant for my arrest, and I said ‘okay, well that is interesting.’”
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