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I received a couple of phone calls from Publishers Clearing House. Callers name was Mike Anderson. He also gave the name Michael K. Anderson. Their phone number is 585-531-2018. That number was my caller ID. Said I won $2.5 million and a Mercedes Benz. Wanted me to send a $950 cashiers check for taxes. He gave me an address to mail my check to their accountant. Walter Lightner 241 Tiger Lilly Dr. Parrish FL 34219. I did not send any money. They had my address. Wanted to deliver my prize. I kept asking is this real? He was good. I did not send any money.

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- Lakewood, OH, USA
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I received a phone message claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House saying I won $5 million dollars. A senior citizen, I've haven't entered any sweepstakes in many years and immediately got suspicious. The message instructed me to call back but I suspected the caller just wanted to get my social security number or other personal info. Instead, I called BBB.

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We received a call that my husband has won a Publishers Clearing House lottery prize of $3,500,000, plus $7500/month for life and a new Mercedes Benz car. My husband is an avid player of PCH contests so we actually answered the call,. After being told to press "1" for connection to a representative, there was a phone ring but no answer. We hung up, and quickly received a call back from a Mr. John Kelly, Sr. Vice Pres. of PCH. After a long conversation he sent an email with a large attachment. It was 10 pages of "documents" explaining that the ScamPulse.com highly endorsed our award, and congratulated us. It also informed us of fees that would be due to the IRS and the FDIC. In total about $20,000 would be due upon acceptance of the prize. The caller had a strange accent, possibly Middle Eastern. The errors in the alleged documents were what made me suspicious. There were numerous typos and grammatical errors, especially in the supposed letters from the IRS and BBB.

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I received a friend request on FaceBook from an old friend and accepted the request. Then, a day after accepting the request, i got a private Facebook message from the same friend, telling me that she won $400,000 from a Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes, and my name was also on the page. She gave me a number and said to text it, and inquire. My curiosity got the best of me, I called the number but hung up. Then I was texted from that number and was given a webpage to go to. I clicked on it, and indeed my name was on it. But instead of going further, I called that friend, who confirmed that she was hacked on Facebook, and she had not sent me the messages.

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- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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I received a phone call from a gentleman claiming to be David Scott with publishers clearinghouse, he told me I had won the 2nd place of PCH, and my prize was 35 cashiers checks totaling 3.5 million dollars. He (David Scott)told me his supervisor Todd, would call me right back with some questions, which were how do I feel?, Am I happy about winning?, Do I want to receive the money publicly or private? Then he (Todd) told me if I told anyone about this phone call I would forfeit my winnings. David Scott called me 7 times from another phone number 876-774-9884, when I did not answer, he called from a restricted phone and left me a message to please answer the phone this is David Scott.I feel everyone should know about this scam, attempting to ruin I perfectly good business by trying to pretend to be PCH.Thank you, respectfully Janice Stokes

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An individual called and said he was from the publishers clearing house, and we had won 1/2 million dollars, then he asked all kinds of questions about all our bills and credit cards, how we have done our shopping, did we own our house, our banking company and other questions. Then he told us to not tell anyone about this because they would take advantage of us. He said his name was Michacle Perkins, and they would deliver it on Thursday, July.

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- Columbus, OH, USA
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I received a call from David Shakespeare, 876-278-9785, telling me I won $5,000,000 if I sent him a $500 Vanilla Visa Debit card. 

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They called and left messages saying she won money. And they want to escort her to the bank

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They wanted me to go to Rite Aid to purchase a Greendot money pack card for 299.00 dollars and call them at 1 228 901 5549 when I get back... They promised me I won their monthly sweepstakes of 1.8 million dollars and a new Mercedes Benz. Mr. Dave Sayer was the man to send the greenest card to.

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- Tyler, TX, USA
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Danielle Iam and Agent Matthew from Homeland Security called because the consumer had won a truck and 1 million dollars. Requested for them to send $200 and then $10,000 for the taxes on the winnings.

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- Frankfort, OH, USA
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Rec'd a call alst week from Publisher's Clearing House saying we had won $8 million dollars. Yesterday I got another call. he wants to deliver my $8.2 million dollars and Mersedes Benz. To do that, I have to purchasae a Vanilla giftcard. His boss, Rich Mann, called later in the day, saying they were giving away $8.2 million and provided his badge number. He knew my address.

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- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
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Received call - said he Todd Sloan - publisher clearing house n Said I winner! Set date for Prize Patrol to present me with prizes! But, needed to get pre paid Visa Vanilla Card $500. From Walmart. Then all I need is my ID n Prepaid card when they arrive. I never responded to several calls they made. I’m sure they wanted card number!!!! Named several people related to Pub Clearing house!!!

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A man called my elderly mother twice, claiming to be the President of Publishers Clearing House. He had the President's name correct. He told my mother that she had won $5000.00 a week for life. He then told my mother that she needed to supply her bank information and social security number, and to pay a fee of $380.00

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They told me that I had won 2.5 Million and that I needed to give them my information to receive my winnings and pay a percentage for fees.

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A phone call came to my parents house in **, - claiming they were Publishers Clearing House and that my elderly parents had won $3.5 million dollars. They left a voice message and gave their phone number as ** and said to ask for James at ext 1 and my parent's claim number for their money was **.

We called them back but they didn't answer. We called them because we knew it was a SCAM but wanted to see what type of game they were playing. The scammers called my parent's house back within 5 minutes.

It was a man saying he was from Publishers Clearing House and wanted to know if we wanted to collect our prize money of $3.5 million. He needed a 1099 form (taxes) and needed to know my parent's BANK. When I gave him a BS answer - he hung up on me. We recorded the phone conversation and we also have a recording of the phone scam voicemail.

*****my parents did NOT fall for this SCAM - however, there will be someone who does.

*****IMPORTANT - Do NOT ever give anyone your bank account number or any tax information. These scammers are TARGETING elderly people and wanting their bank account information.

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- Goodlettsville, TN, USA
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James Dawson Badge #5959 PCH, GM Peter Parker Badge #6017 PCH called from Publisher's Clearing House. Advised consumer to purchase a $100 One Vanilla gift card and when Publisher's Clearing House comes to deliver the check for 4.6 million dollars he is to give them the card.

Confirmation Code: LF5910PCHUS

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- Memphis, TN, USA
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I won 18.2 million 7,000 dollars a week for life.

Need to purchase a Vanilla visa card with $500 for them to pick up when they bring my check in a white limo.

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- Buffalo, MO, USA
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James * ****** said he was the prize patrol director his ID is ******* told me I won 93,000 certified check $5,000 for 6 months a 20/20 Chrysler 300 gave me a package code a confirmation code and told me all I had to do was pay the state tax of $860 then told me Mary ******* was the senior manager the CEO of PCH was ************ and the paparazzi with Jack ****** and told me I would win all of this as long as I would pay the $860 and I told them I didn't have the money and I thought PCH was free

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I received a message on my cell phone from Publishers Clearing House. I won about $5.7 million. I called the phone number back. 917-999-5692. They wanted $3000 upfront before the money could be released and for taxes. He asked where I banked. I gave the name of my bank but not my account number. I also gave my email address. They also sent me an email. I realize it was a scam scam at first.. I did not send any money. I should not have to send any money if I won a prize.

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- Mc Cutchenville, OH, USA
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He said we won $5,000 dollars a week and a new car. Wanted us to open a bank account to have the check sent to.

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