Publishers Clearing House 2026 Reports & Reviews

Publishers Clearing House Reports & Reviews (1686)

Total money lost $100
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

Received a phone call from someone claiming that they were with Publishers Clearing House and went by the name David Greene. He informed me that I won a PCH prize of $2,500,000 along with a 2021 Ford Explorer and $5,000 a week for two years. He gave me a bunch of information over about 4 hours had me go to Walgreens to get a prepaid credit card. Then about 3 hours in to the call said I needed to come up with $4332.00 for a United Stamp of Treasury to guarantee the cashier's check. The first representative's supervisor, said his name was Mark Merchant got on and tried to get at least $1000 more out of me.

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Scammer's phone 1-480=983=5711
Scammer's website ?
Scammer's address ?
Country United States
Type of a scam Other
Initial means of contact Phone

Taped phone call with the publishers clearing house music, state I had one 2.5 million dollars as a 2nd place winner in the Golden Harvest Sweeps stake from publishers clearing house. this was saturday 7/9/22 at 7:02 p.m. my claim number 2o2o16xr and I was tl call 1-281-962-5173. I called and it was a answering machine. A few days earlyer some guy kept calling me saying he was from publishers clearing house. I hung up but he kept calling. yvonne Buckley 567-312-8572

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

Mr DeanI assure you Foreman , identified himself, Says he is with the Publisher Clearing House he ask me if I was familiar with them? I said yes I was.

He said this is real and I can assure you that you have just won our prize of $5.5 Million dollars. He said " Am I familiar with the Bank of America? , I said yes. He said you won, a new 2022 Chevy E ECherokee truck, also you will receive a certified bank check. as BONUS YOU WILL RECEIVE A $7.000.00 A WEEK EVERY FRIDAY. IF HE IS LYING YOU CAN FILE A LAW SUIT. THE NEXT DAY ANOTHER ONE CALLED TO VERIFY THE INFORMATION WWAS GIVEN AND THEY WERE COMING AT 1:30 PM THAT DAY. BU I NEEDED TO GET REGISTERED RIGHT BY GOING TO THE POST OFFICE AND GET A MONEY ORDER FOR $1499.00. JUST MAKE IT 3- $500.00

MONEY ORDER. I TOLD HIM I DID NOT HAVE THIS. HE SAID BARROW IT IT IS WORTH IT, I TOLD HIM TO CALLBACK IN A 1/2 HOUR. I WENT TO THE POLICE. THEY SAID THEY CANNOT CATCH THEM IT WON'T DO ANY GOOD.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

received a call from "Ben ******** with the Publishers Clearning House" who claimed we had won a million dollars- $7k/week for the rest of my life. He asked that I get a winning package card from the Dollar Store of $3,000 for the stamps required from the bank $999 for each stamp- 3 needed to get the money into my account. He cussed at me when I told him he was a liar and said I shouldnt have to pay him anything. He said I wasnt paying him I was paying the bank- then I said if I had to pay the bank why would I need to get a pre-paid gift card and not just let them use my account?? He was so mad and said terrible things

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Total money lost $325
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

Scammer interdouce himself as a client from publishers clearing house award department. Then requested that I pay 998.00 for fdic insurance fee.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

Called me 06/20/2022 5:41pm. Said I won first prize millions of dollars and they were coming to my residence on 06/21/2022 to give me my prize. They asked if I wanted it televised or private. They wanted money first. I never entered PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE. This is the second time they called. First time I won money and a Mercedes. They wanted $250.00 to ship me my car.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

Caller called twice, I didn’t answer either time. “Bobby O’Connor” from PCH said I had won but I need to call him back to make arrangements to pay for the taxes before they can send me my prize money. SCAM!!!!

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

Dave Jones called from Publishers Clearing House to say I had won $18 million. He had an Indian accent. He told me to go to Walmart and buy a Vanilla gift card while he stayed on the phone. And after I got the gift card, the TV crew would be at my home to take pictures. I told him it's a scam and hung up. He called back irritated and asked why I had hung up. I said because this is a scam. He said "This is not a scam, I told you upfront I did not want money." I was scammed a couple of years ago, and they got me for a couple hundred dollars and this sounded like the same thing.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

I caught the person before they were able to scam me. I called back to confirm this several times.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

They called from this number and give a pkg number and ex number then they want you to go to a walmart or walgreens and pick up a confirmation card and pay 199.00 this is a scam you can hear chickens in the background all they while they are trying to pluck inncoent people.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

received by mail misleading information

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

I received a voicemail from PCH saying I had won and would receive $7000/week. They gave me a number to call back to claim my winnings. I called the ScamPulse.com to verify if this is real and they told me it was a scam.

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Total money lost $9,000
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

They called and took $9000 from us as we thought they were PCH. They want more money.

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Scammer's phone 16139092267
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes
Initial means of contact Phone

Was called and told I won but needed to get a prepaid Visa loaded with $250 to get my winnings
Mans name was David Anderson ID number 7204850 manager's name Peter Green

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

They called me and said I won $8.5 million dollars and a Lincoln. But wanted me to Fed Ex overnite $2900 for the taxes for the IRS before I could collect the prize. I knew that was a scam.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

They keep contacting me on Facebook under the name Danny Combs. Telling me I won a pch grant.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

I received a letter from publishers Clearing House informing me I had won $1,200,000.00. They wanted me to call a claims agent to advise me how to claim the prize winnings. They wanted me to supply an account number for deposit. OK because I could open a new account and not give my current account number. They said they would process the taxes (Social Security Number required) Thanks but no Thanks. I did NOT react to the offer.

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

I have recently been getting emails to alert me about winning the Publishers Clearing House of $3.5 million and a new Mercedes. All contact was by email and the PCH jackpot was mine but I had to contact them for verification. The number I was to call was 915-320-6088, not a number shown to be in connection with PCH. So I called and asked them how much this was going to cost me and I was told by Carl Miller nothing, but I would have to send several hundred dollars in advance for taxes on the winnings. He assured me it would seem like a small amount compared to what he was going to win and there were no alternatives to be able to avoid paying those advance taxes. So I refused to send the money and calls stopped.

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Scam alert

I have had an on going text with someone claiming to be with PCH.it started out as Danielle Iams. Then to a David . And now I have the CEO Andrew Goldberg. It has been off cause they want me to pay a delivery fee and open a local bank . Well I went on PCH scam alerts and got the rundown of how it really works . I'm going to post some pics and info of these people . Heads up people

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Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

I was contacted from a facebook friend through messenger but the friend had no idea someone was using her name and contact profile. It was as if I was talking to my friend trying to convince me that I was on the same list that she was on and had won money from Publishers Clearing House. She kept wanting me to check it out because she had won $150,000.00 and had received the money at her front door step. All I had to do was contact the Agent and download WhatsApp and create an account. I was to fill out name and address, phone number and choose the amount of money I wish to receive. Each amount of money comes with an acitivation fee for profile batch code number as it will be requested by the delivery team when they are ready to deliver winning money to prevent double claims.

You pay $1,000.00 and get $70,000.00, $1500.00 and get $150,000.00 all the way up to $33,000.00 and receive $1,000,000.00.

I told them that I had checked with PCH and they said they never charge any fees and if someone claimed to be them and charged that it is a scam. If I find out that my identity has been compromised through WhatsApp I will report it. I did not let it get past my address and phone number. I would not have gone far if they were not using my friends name in this scam. The only image I have is the correspondence back and forth and I screenshot those and then closed out the WhatsApp.

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Publishers Clearing House Contacts

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+1 (949) 237-1866

+1 (172) 433-0305

+1 (908) 441-8017

+1 (516) 266-7280

+1 (613) 909-2267

+1 (716) 204-9039

+1 (292) 656-6757

+1 (346) 262-4458

+1 (719) 999-4341

+1 (737) 477-6044

+1 (365) 998-8318

+1 (903) 400-9570

+1 (876) 813-6154

+1 (330) 482-8061

+1 (917) 300-4590

+1 (520) 394-5732

+1 (585) 378-4786

+1 (876) 278-9785

+1 (480) 983-5711

+1 (281) 962-5173

+1 (585) 215-5100

+1 (580) 681-3074

+1 (917) 243-4983

+1 (343) 357-0728

+1 (214) 785-6567

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