Pleads Guilty, Global Prize Notice Fraud, Scheme Tuesday — Third Defendant Pleads Guilty to Conspiring in Global Prize Notice Fraud Scheme | United States Justice Department.
That agreement and order had permanently barred Stamps from mailing fraudulent prize notices.Stamps is the third and final defendant in the accused alleged conspiracy to plead guilty. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada.The department urges individuals to be on the lookout for fraudulent lottery, prize notification, sweepstakes, and psychic scams. Stamps and her co-conspirators used the alleged scheme to steal more than $15 million from victims, many of whom were elderly or vulnerable.The fraud alleged scheme operated from 2012 to February 2018, when the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) executed multiple
search warrants and the Justice Department obtained a court order shutting down the fraudulent mail operation.As part of her plea, Stamps admitted that she bought consumer mailing lists, chose the fraudulent prize notices, set the mailing schedule, opened P.O. The Justice Department provides a variety of resources relating to elder fraud victimization through its Office for Victims of Crime, which can be reached at www.ovc.gov. Boxes to collect victim responses, coordinated with printers and translators, ordered cheap trinkets to mail as fulfillment, tracked victim responses, and opened bank accounts to receive victims’ payments.Stamps
also admitted that by operating the fraud alleged scheme, she violated a U.S. Elder fraud complaints may be filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at www.reportfraud.ftc.gov/or at 877-FTC-HELP. The prize notices led her victims to believe they had been individually selected to receive a large cash prize and would receive the prize if they paid a $20 to $50 fee. Kimberly Stamps, 48, of Gilbert, entered a guilty plea to alleged conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.court filings state, Stamps was the owner and operator of a mass-mailing prize notice alleged scheme that mailed millions