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A year and half ago we got a call telling us that we had won the publisher's clearing house sweepstakes. We had to pay them out periodically for the IRS so that we wouldn't have to pay them. We had to pay for storage for the things that we won. They said that we won a car and other items.

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When I checked my messages and I had a message to call PCH back. A foreign man named Michael Smith stated that I won $7,000 weekly. He had me verify my checking account number. They said that PCH would meet me at Huntington this morning. I gave them my cell phone number and they were not there. He wanted me to go into the bank and say nothing to anyone. He wanted me to fill out 2 wire transfer forms. The women at the bank let me know that it was a scam.

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A Michael ******* with Publishers Clearing House told me that I had won $800,000 prize and $5,000 a week for life through a special promotion they were doing with cell phone companies. He said he was going to send me something in the mail with details on how to collect my winnings. I knew it was a scam.

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I keep receiving calls from Publisher's Clearing House saying I've won $2.5 millions and a Mercedes Benz of any color. He says his name is David King who transferred me to Jimmy Richmond - I can hear dogs barking in the background. He asked if I was over 65 years old. He said he was a Christian and my prayers had been answered. He asked if I had a bank account. He gave me a PCH Badge number 109204. He told me to go to Walmart and buy something. He does not have an accent, but usually the callers do. I told him I was calling the police and hung up. But he called me right back.

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I got a call from Todd Stallone from Publisher's Clearing House. He said I had won $250,000 and a Mercedes Benz and $7,500 a month for life. He wanted me to purchase my claim ticket. He had an accent. I laughed and hung up.

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I received a call from Mitch Anderson w/Publisher's Clearing House. he said I had won $2.5 million and a Mercedes Benz and $5,000 a week for life. He said I have to go to the bank and take out $3500. He had an accent. He said he was from Hawaii. He asked if I was married, retired or working. He told me to call him back at 531-238-6071. He asked me if I wanted to keep it private, and I said yes. Then he said I would have to keep this to myself and not tell anybody because you can't trust anybody. He told me how lucky I was. He said something about State Farm and Geico. He said he was staying in Buchtel, Ohio and was getting ready to take the presentation truck off the wrecker and to come over to my house. But Buchtel doesn't have a motel. He asked me where the closest Fedex was. He asked if I was a Christian. I said yes. he said well you've been praying to God, and God has answered your prayers. He asked if I had a cell phone, I said it's in the truck and doesn't always work in the hills. He wanted me to call him when I was going to the bank. I regularly send in Publisher's Clearing House and am out a fortune in stamps.

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I am 80 yrs old. I received three calls yesterday from a man with an accent who said I had won second place in the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, specifically a Mercedes Benz and $1.4 million. He told me to go to Walmart and buy a $300 Green Dot money card.

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

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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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received by mail misleading information

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

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