"PCH Grant Promo" Scam

PCH Grant Promo Scam

The "PCH Grant Promo" email below is a scam. Therefore, recipients of the same email which claim they have won such a donation are asked to delete it because it is 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 a grant, donation, sweepstakes prize award.

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The "PCH Grant Promo" Scam

From: "Parsons, Matthew" - mparsons@gcaservices.com

Date: March 12, 2018 at 7:55:02 PM CDT

To: Undisclosed recipients:;

Subject: Ref#: PCHG26371833

PCH Grant Notice Dated 3/12/2018.

Email Ref#: PCHG26371833.

Batch#: 553617173.

Grant Amount: 1,000,000 USD.

You have won the PCH Grant Promo. To claim send your name and address to our agent on address: pchgrant018@hotmail.com

Publishers Clearing House(PCH)

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.

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Mar 29, 2020 at 4:16 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States

What if I am scared do I have any recourse?

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Feb 27, 2020 at 7:14 AM by
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an anonymous user from: New York, United States

I was just hit with my PCH ‘Grant” scam. Pay $ to get $! What a mess.

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Dec 28, 2019 at 9:53 AM by
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an anonymous user from: Augusta, Georgia, United States

Same thing is also being circulated from facebook messenger with info to contact a PCH Grant Agent Gibson Frank at 314-525-5691 with full name and info and a fee to claim grant.

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Nov 28, 2019 at 10:36 AM by
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an anonymous user from: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

I supposedly been award a $90,000 pch grant but I have to send her $1100.00 in steam cards to pay for registration & tax stuff is this for real or just some bs

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Nov 28, 2019 at 10:41 AM by
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It is not real, it is a scam.

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Aug 27, 2019 at 6:43 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States

Scammers are also using the names of: Michael White, Dorothea Kuebler and Elizabeth Taylor. There numbers are: 630-701-7313, 402-207-2342, 304-314-4461, 318-490-0803 and 206-208-4003.

They keep texting me and I tell them to leave me alone. They want me to pay $200 to receive my winning prize... I tell them I do not have the money and to leave me alone or I will complain to the authorities. I am blocking every number that they try and text me on. I wish these people would be caught.

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Jul 22, 2019 at 5:59 PM by
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an anonymous user from: San Francisco, California, United States

Someone calling himself a Mr Harris with the phone number (510)284-5293 is claiming to be an agent of pch in charge of distributing winnings to "qualified persons " then sends a follow up text asking for more personal information.

The scam comes in by way of facebook. Com messenger claiming to come from "aubrey stone" a well know executive of the California black chamber of congress who I know personally and they have made a duplicate facebook.com fake link using his name to communicate messages through facebook messenger.

Please advise, beware and please forward this information to pch and the dept of consumer affairs.

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Feb 10, 2019 at 9:08 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Did you talk to her in person? I'm getting a similar message, I think my friends FB account has been hacked.

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Jan 15, 2019 at 5:43 PM by
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an anonymous user from: San Diego, California, United States

I'm kinda confused. My elderly aunt contacted me thru Facebook Messenger and said she got $30,000 from Publishers Clearing House. She said my name was on the Grant List too, and I should call before the time expired.

Upon further questioning, I learned that she called the a 347-798-2257 number that she also gave me. She sent them some money and she said she got back "cash". I asked her further what she meant by "cash". Was it a check or $100 bills. She said money, sent to her by FedEx. WTF? Who sends $30,000 by FedEx?

She's really insistent that I call these people, even pushy. I read your warning and tried to tell her this is a scam but she said she already got paid and it isn't a scam. Call them, Call them.

Something's still not right, I can feel it, but why would they send her money? Does she have to recruit X amount of people before they give her the rest?

I don't know what's going on. These people just called me. Jeez, the connection is so bad I have no doubt their probably located in the hills of some East India province.

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Jan 15, 2019 at 5:55 PM by
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It is a scam, do not be fooled.

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Jan 10, 2019 at 3:38 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Des Moines, Iowa, United States

I got this number from a friend 614 585 9834 to call for free grant money to fill application for the grant money and you have pay them 200 dollars to receive the money, this a scam.

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