Members of the public have received calls about jury fines, one that Donna Jill Johnson, the Lauderdale County Circuit Clerk, says is a scam.

Johnson said that some people had received calls telling them to wire up to $2,000 as a fine for failing to report for jury duty. 

“The judicial process is not handled that way – through sending money,” Johnson said in an email warning about the scam. 

According to the email, Johnson had received calls about this scam in the past.