A number of federal district courts across the United States are reporting that citizens are being targeted by a juror phishing email that asks recipients to provide personal identifiers (SSN, DOB, mother’s maiden name, etc.) on an attached PDF form. Recently, we learned of another scam involving phony arrest warrants. These emails may tell recipients that to avoid arrest for money laundering, bank fraud, or missed jury duty, they must send money.
You’ve received a warrant by fax or email saying a federal law enforcement officer or an attorney for the government wants to arrest you. Charges may be for money laundering or bank fraud, or missed jury duty. To avoid arrest, the warrant says, send money.
This is a scam.
The warrant may display a bogus logo of an unspecified “United States District Court,” a case number, and various charges. Typically, recipients are instructed to call a number to get a “settlement” or to wire money to avoid arrest.
Welcome to the court's new website. In addition to streamlining, reorganizing and updating the information offered on the site, we have added several new features to enhance your use of it. Those new features include a new opinion search function for our local opinions that is accessible under the Quick Links section on the home page, as well as retooled local rules and CJA reference manual sections that are more easy to navigate and print.
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In developing and designing the new website, the court was very fortunate to have input from several of our practitioners: Andrew Schulman, Richard Guerriero, John Shirley, Kevin O'Shea, Nick Abramson and Cori Palmer. Thank you very much for your valuable assistance.
The Court is pleased to announce that it has selected Attorney Andrea K. Johnstone to serve as the new full-time Magistrate Judge for the District of New Hampshire. It is anticipated that Attorney Johnstone will begin her term of service in late June.