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How Do I Report a PCH Scam?

Greetings, fans and friends,

Here at PCH, we detest scammers as much as you do. We think it’s awful when unscrupulous individuals impersonate the “real” Publishers Clearing House and contact fans and friends like you, often asking their victims to send some sort of payment to claim a fake PCH “prize” (something, by the way, that PCH would never do)!

That’s why you need a convenient way to quickly and easily report a PCH scam – and we now have one.

Introducing the brand new online PCH Scam Form.

We encourage you to use this new scam reporting form if you’ve been contacted by a scammer over the phone, by postal mail, by email or social media. If you’ve  received a scam contact by email or on Facebook, you may feel free to report the scam using the new online scam form.

Our new form will take you step-by-step through a short list of questions regarding  the scam contact you received, and will help us to serve you better!

Let’s go through it together …

  • When you arrive at the “How do I report a scam?” page, simply click on the link to fill out a Scam Incident Report:

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• Clicking on the link will bring you to the Fraud/Scam Incident Report page:

How do I report a PCH scam

  • Read through this page carefully. If  you’ve received a scam contact from someone claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House, fill in the “Yes” circle. You will then be asked if you sent or lost money to the scammers.  If you answer “Yes,” you will be  prompted to submit information about the scam incident, such as your name and phone number, the date and time of the incident, your home address, your email address, the amount of money you may have sent the scammer, and any additional comments you’d like to report (see the picture below for a portion of this page).

By the way, if you did lose money to a scammer, we recommend that you report the scam to your local authorities.

It is very important that you  not engage  further with the scammer.  Do not send any more money, and do not reply to their calls, letters or emails!

Scam Report Report

  • Once you’ve filled out your information and hit “submit,” PCH will share your information with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US Postal Service, and police and law enforcement officials around the country; to help these agencies put a stop to  such illegal and fraudulent scam operations.

For more information on how to protect yourself from scams, check out PCH’s Consumer Affairs link on pch.com.

Stay safe, everyone!

Debbie K.
PCH Creative

Please take a look at these other blogs, too!
Did I Win from PCH or Am I Being Scammed?
Do You Think You’re the Victim of a PCH Impostor Scam? Here’s What to Do!
PCH Scam Warning: Please Don’t Post Your Personal Information!

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  1. Scam alert! Received a call from a Rev. John Meyers stated he was a rep of PCh and proceeded to tell us we won . Long story short when it got down to the check for 13.5 million we were going to have to pay for IRS gold stamp! They wanted $1350.00. oh boy I definitely got defensive and this is after an hour or so by phone. He hung up . I am reporting it

    1. Hi Marie, Please report all contacts from scammers to PCH via this link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. PCH does partner with the Federal Trade Commission and we send all scam reports to them so please make sure you let us know anytime a scammer contacts you. Remember, the real PCH never notifies major prize winners via phone, standard mail, email, or social media, and we never ask winners to pay to claim their prize. You can see more Safety Tips here: https://bit.ly/FraudProtection2. Please be careful everyone; don’t become a scammer’s victim.

  2. I have a man saying he is Agent Fredrick Loosan from PCH. He has been texting me a lot. but hasn’t asked me for money. Yet, I don’t know if he’s real. He has sent me a copy of his ID card. Saying it is his.

    1. Hi Tracy! Please report all contacts from scammers to PCH via this link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. PCH does partner with the Federal Trade Commission and we send all scam reports to them so please make sure you let us know anytime a scammer contacts you. Remember, the real PCH never notifies major prize winners via phone, standard mail, email, or social media, and we never ask winners to pay to claim their prize. You can see more Safety Tips here: https://bit.ly/FraudProtection2. Please be careful everyone; don’t become a scammer’s victim.

  3. I received a call this morning from someone who claimed to be from Publishers Clearing House to inform me I had won what sounded like millions of dollars (I couldn’t make out the amount). I was suspicious of this call and requested that he send me an email with that information. He gave me his name, Larry Copper, at 646-878-$$$$ (NY). His email address, which he sent me, was PublisherClearingHouseP732@gmail.com. It didn’t look like a good PCH email, so I didn’t open the message. My account #$$$$$$$$ Is it possible that I may have won something? However, I’m aware that PCH does not call parties who have won, so this whole thing could have been a scam.

    1. Hi Mary! Please report all contacts from scammers to PCH via this link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. PCH does partner with the Federal Trade Commission and we send all scam reports to them so please make sure you let us know anytime a scammer contacts you. Remember, the real PCH never notifies major prize winners via phone, standard mail, email, or social media, and we never ask winners to pay to claim their prize. You can see more Safety Tips here: https://bit.ly/FraudProtection2. Please be careful everyone; don’t become a scammer’s victim.