MURFREESBORO, TN – In today’s shocking development from the Department of Obvious Frauds, WGNS is once again reporting on the age-old “You Missed Jury Duty” scam—because evidently, it still works. Yes, in a world of smartphones, Google, and common sense, scammers are managing to convince people they forgot to show up for a federal grand jury they were never summoned to in the first place.
A Murfreesboro woman was recently targeted by one such scammer claiming to be “Deputy Mike Evans.” (Spoiler: there is no Deputy Mike Evans.) He told her she missed a grand jury date—something that probably would’ve come with a few more official documents than a random phone call—and that he had a subpoena ready and was recording the call. Sounds super legit, right?
To her credit, the woman did what anyone with a working brain cell would do: she said she’d call the actual sheriff’s office. At that point, the fake deputy mysteriously vanished from the phone like a ghost of bad ideas past. She then called the real Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office and—surprise!—learned that they do not, in fact, have a Deputy Mike Evans issuing subpoenas via phone…