The "2020 PCH Award" Scam
From: Publishers Clearing House - l.pilenga@alice.it
Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 10:25 AM
Subject: Email Winning Notification!!!
Congratulation on winning in our 2020 PCH (Award).
To file for claims, please contact below:
Mr James Ramsey
PCH Senior Verification / Clearance Officer.
pchservice559@gmail.com
Kristin Cooke
Official Notification
Copyright 2020 Publishers Clearing House. All Rights Reserved
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.