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Publishers Clearing House / PCH / imposter Reports & Reviews (14)

- Tacoma, WA, USA • May 24, 2025
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I deposited a $8,700.42 check into my us bank account. I was then told to send them to130 so.9th st. Newark ,NJ 07107 attn. Mary Edwards

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- Reubens, ID, USA • May 06, 2025
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A man called saying he is David Washington from Publishers Clearning House and that I have won a sweepstakes 6.5 million dollars plus a 2025 BMW. 5ooo.oo a week plus a bonus of 10,000 and a briefcase with the money But I would have to give them $2000 upfront today.AAA will deliver the car. Also got a call from them giving me a pass code number to use. Now Im waiting for another call. As of today May 6,2025 i have not received anything or paid anything. We will wait and see what happens.(I don't know if I should call the police and inform them or not.

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- Selah, WA, USA • Feb 13, 2025
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Someone pretending to be from Publishers Clearing House called and left a message saying there was a "surprise gift" being held for me and to call them back to claim it.... It smelled very much like a scam, and I even did a search regarding the phone # (5166131328) which wasn't connected to PCH. Needless to say I didn't/won't call them back!

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- Honolulu, HI, USA
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They called asking me if I received a publisher clearing house winners package. I said no so they continued to ask me question about winning publishers until I said yes then they hung up

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- Hillsboro, OR, USA
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Received call saying he won the sweepstakes. Asked for lots of personal information and $ upfront

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- Billings, MT, USA
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"Reynaldo " told me i had won 2.5 million dollars and $2500 a month for life, he gave me a code of9847700011PCH and then told me i needed to use my debit card for $3800 charge for "permits and shipping and handling. " i laughed and told him he was scamming me and wished i knew exactly were he was so i could burn the building down with him in it. He hung up.

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- Walla Walla, WA, USA
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A guy named “Bob Wilson” called me saying I won the second place in publishers clearing house for $2.6 million and a Ford F150 truck. I won not through actual publishers clearing house, but by a random phone number picked in Idaho. He gave me a winning ticket number of 430981725700 ID also gave me a phone number to call 516-274-9478. He said since I won, another number is going to call me and he’ll be on the line as well and that was the number that I provided. He said since I won prize patrol was coming today but they already took care of the taxes and I need to pay them in a $500 one vanilla card.

So I asked if I was understanding this correctly, and I had to pay prize patrol the tax in the form of a gift card? And he replied, yes, and I said shame on you, you know you shouldn’t be scamming people out of money. He then started to argue with me that he was not scamming anyone and this is real. I responded, saying the prize patrol does not take money for the IRS, then he really started getting upset so I just hung up on him.

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- Coos Bay, OR, USA
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A recorded voice said I was the grand prize winner of the PCH Golden Harvest Sweepstakes Giveaway and that I won 18 million dollars plus 5 million a week for life and a 2024 Meecedes Benz. They would require a fee upon receipt.

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- Denver, CO, USA
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Wes contacted by phone saying i won million wants 300 to claim .7206080960 is number thay called me from. Saying was publisher cleaning house. I didn't believe them i told them i would report them they hung up.

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- Arvada, CO, USA
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person called gave me and i asked how may i help you . he said are you so an so ? I said yes ! How may I help you? He said his name I don't remember it. He sounded very professional no accent. he stated that he was with the Location dept of American Clearing house, and they had been trying to reach me. I asked why? He stated that i had won 2nd place in Publishers Clearing House drawing. the prize being 8 million dollars and a Mercedes Benz. He said that i needed to call the claims dept and speak with tom i didn't get the name so i had him spell it out for me, which he did along with the number to call 1-800-651-6944 Toddsslaome will be helping me through claiming my prize. he told me to call him right now. i said OK hung up the phone. I never called the number.

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- Brownsville, OR, USA
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Called said I won 6.6 million dollars and 5000 a month for life. Wanted me to run to store and purchase 500-dollar Vanilla gift card to PAY FDIC charges.

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- Graham, WA, USA
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Voice mail: Claimed I was 1st place winner of monthly grand promotion drawing, (315) 228-9445

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- Seattle, WA, USA
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A guy claiming to be named johnny moore called and said he was with publishers clearing house and we had one eleven million dollars and a new range rover

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All contact was by phone except when I demanded documentation and that was then emailed to me.The Scammer, Mary, called me for the first time on 11/11/22 and introduced herself as representing the Publisher's Clearing House. She asked if I had received my winner notification in the mail and they had mailed it twice, but never received a response and that was why they were calling. Apparently I was selected randomly out of 1,000 people. I won $3.5 Million and a 2022 Mercedes Benz Sports car. I would be receiving $5000 a weekly for the rest of my life. She asked me to get two blank pieces of paper and then proceeded to give me the details of my winning, including a barcode #, confirmation#, winning ticket #. In order to set it up they now were having people purchase a pre-paid Visa gift card, or a One Vanilla Visa gift card, or Secure Spend gift card with a value of $500. (she later changed that to up to a $500 value when I wouldn't give her the $500 g.c. I bought). She said since Covid and because of of all the scams out there they no longer ask for bank account information. Instead their "merchant banker" would set up the card w/ a 4-digit pin and it would have $5k posted to the g. c. every week. I was given a choice of 4 colors for the car - I chose sky blue. I mention that because the documentation the later sent me indicated I was winning a pearl white Mercedes SUV. I was extremely skeptical and Mary was very good at convincing you otherwise and made a promise at least 8 times over the course of the phone calls that she would not be taking my money or food off my table. I had a $50 Visa prepaid gift card that I was given as a gift. I figured I could risk $50. She also talked all about the PCH Prize Patrol. She gave me the option of knowing in advance what day they would arrive at my doorstep. She then told me a Prize Patrol was scheduled to be in Alaska Monday, 11/14. After I gave her the $50 g.c. number she indicated she was going to have the Bank Merchant get it setup. Then she called me back and said it wasn't working so she had me activate it for online purchases but not designate a 4-digit pin. She called me again and said that still didn't work and maybe it was because it was over a year-old which I knew was incorrect. In the meantime I had researched PCH and their website. It substantiated that this might be a scam. That was when she tried pushing me to give her the $500 card number, expiration and 3-digit code. I refused so then she pushed hard on me to go purchase another one. I was fed-up at this point and told her to give me a couple of days to figure out what I wanted to do. That irritated her and she went into a whole speech about I was looking at things negatively and negativity brings negativity, etc etc etc. That was yesterday, 11/15/22. She has tried calling me 3 times today and left one voicemail for me to call her back. So when I got off the phone with her yesterday, I logged into the $50 g.c. balance website https://www.prepaidgiftbalance.com/ and unfortunately I wasn't surprised to see that a purchase in the amount of $45.50 had been made using my g.c. It was a purchase for merchandise at lovelywholesale.com. I had been suspicious partly because the documentation they sent me was full of typos and very unprofessional. Something I'm positive the PCH would not have published. At this point I will not accept any more calls. I just hope by reporting this others will not fall prey.

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