Luverne woman loses thousands in jury duty scam

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A scam involving jury duty caused a Luverne, Minnesota woman to lose thousands of dollars.

Marcella Prokop is scheduled to go to jury duty in May. But a caller, who turned out to be a scammer, told her she had missed it.

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“It’s possible that I’m so busy with work and all the different things that I have going on that I mixed up May and March, but I was sure it was May,” said Marcella Prokop, the victim of a scam. “But I had no way of checking.”

Then, Prokop was given two options: she could be arrested, or post bond…

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