There is no Publishers Clearing House in conjunction with Microsoft Windows lottery. Therefore, recipients of emails like the one below, which claim they are winners in such a lottery are asked to delete them because they are being sent by lottery scammers. The aim of the scammers is to deceive their potential victims into thinking they are the real Publishers Clearing House, but they are NOT! The real Publishers Clearing House would NEVER ask their winners for money or personal information for any reason to claim sweepstakes prize awards.
The "Publishers Clearing House Microsoft Windows" Lottery Scam
Dear E-mail User
This is to inform you that you have won prize money of One Million United States Dollars ($1,000,000.00
USD) for the month of September 2017 Lottery promotion which is organized by PUBLISHERS CLEARING
HOUSE In conjunction with the MICROSOFT WINDOWS
This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows. Hence we do
believe with your winning prize it will give you and many other people the opportunity to get their lives to a
stage where they had always wanted. Note that we collect all the email addresses of the people that are
active online, among the millions that subscribed to Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo/Aol and various Microsoft window
users, we only select FOUR people every year as our winners beneficiaries email addresses were selected
randomly from over 100,000 internet websites or a shop's cash invoice around your area in which you
might have purchased something from.
We congratulate you for being one of the FOUR persons selected you are to contact the events manager
for claim these are your identification Numbers
Winning Number: 7-1-4-8-7-3 Ticket Number: FL 654/29/75
However you will have to fill and submit the below information to the events manager contact email:
webhouse234@gmail.com
1. Full Name 2. House Address 3. Occupation 4.Sex 5.Age
6. Direct Phone Number 7.State 8.Country 9.Email
10. Have You Won Before? (Yes/NO)
Contact Publishers Remittance Department Name Mr. Ken Moore E-mail: webhouse234@gmail.com
Yours Sincerely, Publishers Service Terms
All Right Reserved Terms of Service-Guideline
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is a direct marketing company that markets merchandise and magazine subscriptions with sweepstakes, prize-based game, search, and lottery websites.
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) does not ask for bank account or other financial information. There is no processing fee, tax or special handling charge required to win. The Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes prizes are delivered free of charge to the winners.
How to Determine if you are being Scammed
If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent Publishers Clearing House, or claiming to be a PCH employee and asked to send or wire money, send a pre-paid gift card or a Green Dot MoneyPak card, or cash a check and send a portion back to him/her as payment for any reason to claim a Sweepstakes prize, it is a scam.
The scammers’ preferred method of sending money is through Western Union, MoneyGram, Green Dot MoneyPak card. This is because those methods of sending money make it virtually impossible for the victims to get back their money.