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National Geographic Response to Sweepstakes Scam by Guardian Financial Claim Services and Others
03/04/2009
NGS has recently received calls and emails by people who have received letters from Guardian Financial Claim Services, Global Financial Claim Services, and Alliance Financial Claim Services claiming that they are winners of a National Geographic sweepstakes. The letter asks them to call a number and cash an enclosed check. This is a scam and National Geographic has no involvement or relationship with any of the people or companies named in the letter. Please do not cash the check or give the company listed in the letter any personal information of any kind. We have referred this matter to the US Department of Justice fraud division.
If you have been a victim of this scam, one recourse is to file a complaint with the FTC through their website at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/phonefraud/sweepstakes.shtml or by calling 1-877-382-4357. The FTC does not resolve individual consumer disputes, however your complaint, comment or inquiry can help the FTC detect patterns of law violations which can lead to investigations and prosecutions by law enforcement. Additionally, each complaint that the FTC receives is stored in an online database used by thousands of civil and criminal law enforcement authorities worldwide.
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Contacts:
Caroline Braun
National Geographic Society
202-862-8281
cbraun@ngs.org
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