Florida court emails need the clerk check

A court-looking email can make a person move too fast.

Florida Courts has warned about phishing emails that look like court notices. Its warning tells people not to click links or open suspicious attachments, and to use official contact information instead of numbers inside the message. The warning also notes that courts and clerks do not send legal notices by email.

That is especially important with jury duty, traffic cases, small claims, family cases, and old-looking case numbers. A fake message may use a seal, deadline, payment threat, attachment, or link that feels official. A real court file should be able to connect back to a real clerk or court contact path.

The calm move is simple. Do not click first. Go to the county clerk or court website yourself. Search the case if you have a case number. Call the clerk using a number from the official site. If the message is about jury duty, use the county jury contact path.

Save the email, sender, screenshot, and any phone number before deleting anything. If money was paid or personal information was entered, contact the bank or card company and report the issue through the official court or consumer-protection path. The goal is to slow the moment down before the link gets the driver’s seat.