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- Madison, WI, USA
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The person told me I had won 2nd place in the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, and that I would be receiving $3.5M and a new Mercedes Benz, and i would start receiving payments this Friday of $5000/week until i received the entire amount.

He told me that his name was Micheal Andersos, and that he and Debra Holland would arrive this afternoon with a big Clearinghouse check, and that he would stand on the left and i on the right, and Debra would take a picture for publication. He gave me his badge number of 840321US. He told me they would have a box to give me and that after they presented me with the check they would escort me to the bank.

They proceeded to ask me who i wanted as a beneficiary for the money if anything happened to me, what color car i wanted, whether i was a US citizen, over age 50, marital status.

Then he wanted to let me know the requirements expected for when they arrived. I was to have 2 - $500 VISA gift cards, which would be exchanged hand-to-hand for the package they were bringing. At this point i hung up the phone.

He called back, and i rejected the call.

He called a third time and told me we must have been cut off. I said “No, i hung up on you!”

He said “Aren’t you interested?”

I said “ No, I’m not an [censored]!”

He hung up on me.

Five minutes later i thought to myself that i should have told him I’d have the gift cards and then called the police to apprehend them when they arrived. Hindsight! Could have gotten them off the street.

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- Schenectady, NY, USA
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Allegedly Publisher Clearing House contact me and advised I won 5 1/2 million dollars and new car but you had to send $900.00 processing fee

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- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
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They called and told me I won 3.5 million dollars and that I would get $7k a week for one year. They told me to go Walmart to get some gift cards, one vanilla debit visa card. Walmart was out. I went to Walgreens for an Amazon gfit card and they said it might be a scam. Then I went to CVS and found the Vanilla card.

Then they wanted me to go send cash via FedEx in a magazine but FedEx said they couldn't send cash when i asked them.

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- Mc Leansville, NC, USA
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Phone call: won prize worth millions plus expensive car. Cautious but curious of possibility. Led around to request for bank info to deposit checks (got nothing, accounts blocked). Wanted to prepay taxes on winnings. wanted to pay taxes in cash. No way does the IRS want taxes in advance nor do they want cash. Stayed on phone, constantly asking questions and praising winning prizes. The chatter keeps their victim from thinking deeply enough to realize something is wrong. Even wanted to stay on the phone while going to the bank as well as while in the bank. After blocking bank accounts, hung up. Kept calling over 12 times. Left voice mail - they were so close to making it.

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A male identifying himself as David Goodman from Publisher's Clearing House called Saturday morning 8.26.2020 at 10:30. He told me I had won the PCH sweepstakes prize of 3.5 million dollars plus a 2020 Mercedes-Benz (pearl white). Prizes would be delivered to me either privately or if I chose, publicly with balloons and announcer on camera at 3:30 Saturday afternoon. [ I chose the publicity with balloons, lots of balloons. ]

Caller then informed me I would have to pay the taxes on my winnings before prizes could be awarded. He stated on that amount, taxes would be about $10,000 to $20,000. Caller told me to go to my bank and open a new account into which my winnings could be deposited in order for taxes to be withdrawn. He gave me a code number and a 4 digit PIN and told me to keep all of this to myself and not to tell anyone about it.

I told caller I would have to go to bank which closes at noon on Saturdays and it would take at least an hour to do that. Caller said " Go ahead and do that, I'll stay on the line until you return." I told the caller "no, you call me back in an hour." He agreed and I hung up.

Seven minutes later, David Goodman called again and asked if I had opened the new account yet. I just told him no, the bank was closed and it would not be open until Monday. Caller then told me he had to work on Sunday and he would check back with me then. I said that would be fine and we hung up.

No call on Sunday.

10:00 Monday morning, David Goodman called again and asked if I had opened the new account yet. I told him no because I needed a ride to bank. Caller called back 3 times after that but we did not answer.

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We received a message on our phone saying this company had been trying to reach us to claim our winnings. I called the number they left, and the person I talked to said that my mother won the publisher clearing house sweepstakes worth $2.5 million and she would receive $7000 a week. They gave me the winning confirmation, and then on a blank paper I was supposed to put her contact information and the winning number to confirm it was me. I was then supposed to use UPS and overnight $799.34 to cover taxes for the FDIC. I didn't believe them so I wanted to verify what they said. My mother also has dementia and I was concerned they were trying to take advantage of her. They called me several times to see when I was sending the money and also that Wednesday was my deadline before the offer expires. (Entered by MS re: story given by the victim's daughter.)

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David Howard from PCH called at 915 am confirmation number 771490882US

ID number 1137711045 US

Is this legit?

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- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
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I got a phone call from someone saying he was with PCH, he gave me his identification number and name. He said I could go to Western Union or go to Dollar General and get prepaid debit cards 2 for $500 each.

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- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
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I got a call from someone claiming to be with PCH. I called them back and they said they deposited $43 Million in an account for me and had me call another number they said was the First Nation Bank in Dallas. They said I needed to press 2 to hear the account balance and gave me an account number to type in.

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- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
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I got a phone call saying I won money with PCH. They sent me a letter saying I won as well, and they keep asking me to pay little bits of money to different people for stamps, handling fees, etc. They are calling me repeatedly, and won't take no for an answer.

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- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
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I got a call from someone claiming to be with Publishers Clearing House saying I had won $2.5 Million and a brand new truck, I told them I didn't want it. He called me back several times and insisted it wasn't a scam. I called the number back to see if it was a valid number and the same guy picked up and said it was working number and I could trust him. He told me I needed to pay $1000 to get my prize, and I told him I couldn't pay that. He asked how much I could pay and I said $250. He told me he had a meeting and agreed that if I payed $250 and was serious about wanting the prize they would take it. I went to the store to buy the gift card he told me to, when the cashier scanned the gift card an alert popped up on the register that said ScamPulse.com was warning people about scams using cards like these, I told the guy one the phone, but he swore on this wife and kids that he was legitimate.

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- Vernon, TX, USA
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I got a phone call saying that I won $2 Million dollars and a new car. They asked me to pay $95 to have the money shipped to me.

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Said my boyfriend won 5 million dollars and a new car

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- Milwaukee, WI, USA
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A guy name Eddie Peterson called and said he was from the publishers clearing house (the sweepstakes company) he said I won 3.5 million dollars, but I had to go to dollar general & purchase a gift card worth $220 & call him when I got the gift card to give him the PIN number. He called me over ten times! I kept hanging up and did not comply. I wanted to warn others.

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Got a call from someone named James Shapiro saying he's from PCH and that I won $1 million and a car. He told me that I needed to call another number, (508) 388-3514, but nobody answered at that number. He also said that I needed to get money from my bank to pay them so I can receive my prize and that's when I got suspicious.

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Said I won a million dollars and a new truck, gave all kind of numbers and names badge number, bar code numbers, check numbers. Then asked that I go to a store and buy a prepaid Vanilla Visa card and they would then instruct me from there. playing along I said ok...didnt give bank information or anything but he asked that I put 300 hundred dollars on the Visa card.

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- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
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PCH called and said that I won a lot of money and when I told them I didnt enter anything and she said that if I shop at walmart, walgreen or target those are whe entered me and they wanted to deliver my prize but they needed my address and they gave me a phone number when I asked and it was too many numbers and when I asked where they were calling from and she said wichita falls and I would need to pay for the delivery $600

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- Milwaukee, WI, USA
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They said they were publishers clearing house and called me on July 21, 2020 stating that I won second place in the PCH sweepstakes. They left me a number to call: 1-516-441-9476. and said to ask for Mr. Livingston. I call and left a couple of messages. They ask you to leave your name, the state you are calling from and your phone number. After a month a Mr. David Ross called me back (Aug.28,2020) and said that I won 2.5 million dollars, a red Mercedes car, and an advanced cash payment on my credit cards of $705,000. Well it all sounded too good to be truth after he asked me some questions he asked me to verify my name, address, phone number, last four numbers of my social security and my date of birth. I answered all his questions then he some how asked me for the first 5 numbers of my social got me off guard and I gave it to him. Then he started asking me for a major credit card and my bank information and it had to be a credit card from the bank. I gave him all my information cause you think of publishers clearing house and you think that it is real, I see it on TV all the time, but then he started asking me for my bank information my account number routing number and my credit card information cause he said they needed that so that they can put the money in and of course I believed him. He asked me how much money I had for cash advance I told him the amount gave him my cell number cause he asked me how far my bank was and to get my id, my social security card, and my credit card and to go to the bank. He was on the phone this whole time and told me to go to the parking lot and to say ok when I got there cause he was still on the phone. Once I got there he told me to go to the drive through and ask for cash advancement for the amount that I had on my credit card which in my case was 7,300.00 so I asked him why they need that money and he said you have to pay taxes on what you won so I told him that for the amount of money that I won that it would be more money then what I had and that if I really won that they could just take it out of the winnings. He said that they cover the rest of the taxes that once I gave them that money that everything was taking care of that his team was just waiting for me to make the withdraw and that they would meet me by my house with all my winnings within 15 min. He kept telling me to go through the drive through and to get the money so then I asked what am I going to do with this money he said you are going to do a deposit, or a transfer and he kept telling me to go to the drive through. After a while I told him I couldn't give him that money and he stayed on phone trying to convince me to go back to the bank and I told him that if I really won to give me my winnings and that then I would go and do the transfer. I hung up and he called me back on my house phone and he gave me an account number and routing number from the bank of America and he said that once I got the cash that I can put it back on my card that that account had more then a million dollars in it. After I kept saying that I wanted to see my winnings and that I wasn't going to give him my money he put his manager on the phone a Mr. Gary Beaver and he kept telling me that it wasn't a scam and that I was a loser for not taking my winnings that there were plenty of charities that didn't deserve it and that they would get it because I was a loser and that I didn't want my winnings and he hung up. Then David called me again and he kept saying he didn't want me to lose out and he tried to get me to give him my password to do a transfer on line and I told him it was a scam and I hung up but during this time I had already given him all of my information my social, birthday, credit card information and my bank information. I am writing this because I don't want anybody else to go through this and I hope it will help someone out there they trick you by telling you they need your information so that they can deposit it on your account after that then they tell you you first have to give them that money for the taxes on your winnings and though I didn't give them my money I gave them all of my information which is probably worse.

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- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
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received a phone call yesterday and played along i with their game and I had one 18mil and did I want to go private or public and then they said I was gonna have to pay $4,000 in gift taxes

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- Meridian, ID, USA
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Said I want 25 million dollars. A brand new car. And $7000 a week until the end of the year. All I have to do was go get a cash card for $600 they would be by with my prize but I had to have a $600 before they got here. When I told my daughter about this when I was edit out the door she called him out they called her a [censored] sucker and then they hung up

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