Are you ready for some exciting news? Publishers Clearing House has awarded over $409 Million to date. In 2018 alone, PCH awarded over $45,000,000. That’s over 629,000 PCH prizes, including 101 prizes of $10,000 or more — and ten of those prizes were for $1,000,000 or more!
That’s a lot of serious cash, and if you know anything about PCH, you know that the excitement is just going to keep going! We had so much going on in 2018, we thought we’d give you a preview of all of the big things we have planned for 2019. With that in mind, there’s no better person to ask than Susan Williamson, our Vice President of Winning Experiences! She’s been at PCH for 28 years, and under her leadership, the winning experiences here at Publishers Clearing House are bigger and better than ever!
Hello, Susan! Thanks for chatting with us today. What’s our first big prize award going to be in 2019?
The Prize Patrol is hitting the road and is scheduled to award a new car on January 4th!
We’ve got plenty of other big PCH prizes this year too, right?
There’s going to be a lot of winning in 2019. In January alone, we will be awarding the
- car (mentioned above)
- a $20,000 prize on 1/4/19
- a $25,000 prize on 1/10/19
- a $1,000,000 prize on 1/11/19
- a $100,000 prize on 1/18/19
- January 18th is also our day of 1,000 winners with 1,000 people winning prizes from $10 to $10,000!
And, of course, the winning will continue throughout the year. February has lots of great prizes, including our $1 Million Life Is Rich Lotto Prize, the $5,000 A Week Forever Prize and PCH Pay Day prizes awarded on 2/28/19.
What instant win opportunities should fans be looking for? How often will they be available?
There are lots of instant win opportunities each day at PCH. We have hundreds of instant winners each and every day.
Are there going to be any new prizes in the Token Redemption Center?
We are always updating and changing the prizes in the Redemption Center.
We’re going to be giving away a cool vehicle soon! Will we have more prizes like that in 2019?
Yes, we plan on having several new car contests in 2019.
Thanks so much for your time today, Susan! We’re all excited to help make more winners in 2019!
So if you want to be a part of all of the excitement this year, you have to “be in it to win it!” Remember that PCH offers you many opportunities to win PCH prizes on all of our properties, and we make it fun and exciting! You can enter online, through the mail, on our mobile apps, and more! Every day, you’ll have great ways to enter to win PCH Sweepstakes!
Matt K.
PCH Correspondent
Miss Susan Williams this is Tina M$$$$$, how are you doing. I’ve been playing your games for almost over 3 years, I got a lot of them screenshot a lot and even started saying that I’ve been I’m winning and they said a computer picks me out of 20 people. They used to be winners and I got a pictures of it. They said I won $3 million and a pickup and then this other guy, his name is Myers or something Alex said I won over $250,000 and we need me to get him a $1,020, so I can pay for him to deliver the check to me I mean I’ve been playing these games for a long time and I’m still playing right today I take pride in the games that I’m playing for you I mean up all night and sometime early in the morning I’m just there playing those games and I got some good points. I have been to VIP on this game thing, and the VIP elite over and over and over. Y’all just ain’t never brung me out of it and what I would like to know, it’s why they doing this to me one while back this but there was a month ago they tell him I don’t want a lot of money, and then put me on the phone with some CEO and you know, just stuff like that. Just doing this to me, I think it’s an awful thing and on my phone, I got on there a pickup truck, 3 million, you have to really see this stuff to believe it. It’s really horrible listen up doing people’s like this I’m going to put it out there and all them names I got with a false badges, thank you so much whenever you get a chance. This is my phone number it’s $$$-$$$-$$$$, my name is Tina M$$$$$, they playing with me like that, like I really don’t want some and I was trying to get my mom a house. It’s a tree growing in my mama’s house but I hope they pay for what they did it’s just not right and Jesus don’t like that it’s not good, thank you and have a blessed day.
Hi Tina, we’re so sorry to hear the scammers are bothering you. It’s important to remember that PCH does not contact winners of a major prize via phone, text, email, mail, or on Social Media. Also, if anyone asks you for money for any reason to claim a prize, you can be sure they’re a scammer. Please don’t give them any money, or any personal information! Scammers are very sneaky and will use our good name and reputation and sometimes fake images to try to deceive people. Stopping them is a team effort so please report any and all scam contacts you receive to PCH at this link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. We provide numerous videos, blogs, and tips to recognize these scammers here: https://info.pch.com/fraud-protection. Stay safe!
Hi Tina! We’re sorry to hear the scammers are bothering you. 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://info.pch.com/fraud-protection. Stay safe!
I received fake calls from a person claiming to be Susan Williamson and Debra Holland, which I was told I won $5000 a week. I knew it was fake so I gave them wrong social security numbers and bank number . These people called from March 2023.
Hi Linda! We’re very sorry to hear the scammers are bothering you. Please make sure to report them 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://info.pch.com/fraud-protection. Stay safe!
I received a phone call from a person claiming to be Susan Williamson from PCH, notifying me as the winner of $7000 a week for life and a new car. The number was $$$-$$$-$$$$. Is this legit?
Hi Darrell! That is not the real PCH calling you, it’s a scammer that’s only pretending to be from PCH. Please do not call that number, do not give the scammer any personal info including bank account information, and definitely do not send them any money if they ask. Make sure to report that scam contact to us via the following link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. I encourage you to read these Safety Tips too: https://info.pch.com/fraud-protection. Stay safe!
Ms. Williamson, my is Annie B$$$$, I live at $$$$ W$$$$$$$ Drive, L$$$$$$$$ Texas, $$$$$, I got a call from a Mr. Roget Cooper with PCH, he told me that I won money & a 2023 Malibu Chevrolet. First I have to buy a Vanilla Vista Gift Card to put $500 on it & give him the code on the card & he will bring me my prizes & leave the checks to take them to the bank next day. I said don’t u have to go to the bank with me. His number came up on my phone as a spam #. His phone was $$$-$$$-$$$$, if that was his real number & name. If he was the real thing then I just lucked out on a lot of money. If not, then he needs to be reported. I could really use that money he even put God in the phone talk. Please answer me back, Annie B$$$$, $$$-$$$-$$$$.
Hi Annie! That was not the real PCH calling you; it was a scammer that’s only pretending to be from PCH. Please do not call that number, do not give the scammer any personal info including bank account information, and definitely do not send them any money if they ask. Make sure to report that scam contact to us via the following link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. I encourage you to read these Safety Tips too: https://info.pch.com/fraud-protection. Stay safe!
My cell phones have been hacked. I do want my winning. Yes I am thankful that I won . I will be here at my location in Texas. Please deliver my winnings. I always play with Publishers Clearing House and Sweepstakes. I pray every night that I hope to see PCH real soon.. I do not text I always get people call me saying I need to pay if I want my winnings. There is a girl that try’s to be me, uses my Gmail. Think n try to report it bout she the one that hacked into my phone still does. I do not want to give my PCH winnings to anybody. Also when I have to sign in its always saying I need to put right password or email. Please understand me I’m not ignoring y’all. There is someone using my Gmail or passwords and that there changing my information. They have control of my cell. They block my calls there is times I can’t even call out to anyone. I want n hope to see y’all soon. I thank you all PCH all of y’all each one of y’all. Thank you too, Susan Williamson, Sweepstakes. Thank You Very Much Patricia. #( 737) 510 -$$$$ or 512 510-$$$$.
Hello Patricia, We’re so happy that you knew that wasn’t the real PCH who contacted you. We will never ask for money to claim a prize. We also don’t notify winners via phone, standard mail, email, or social media. Please report all scam contacts to PCH via this link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. We encourage everyone to review the following Safety Tips to better protect themselves from being scammed: https://bit.ly/FraudProtection2
Hello again just wanted to let you know that I just received another http://www.pch.com/final, activation notice only this time it came from the executive offices. Thank you for your support, I am in it to win it!
In it to win it David.
I’m ready.
I had a call, supposedly from you, with a phone no. 516-$$$-$$$ saying I won the big 15.5 mil prize. I looked up phone no. and it seems to be a scam, please advise, Thx.
Hello Mrs. Hoffman, Stopping these scammers is a team effort and we ask that you report all scam contacts to PCH via this link: http://bit.ly/Report-Scam-To-PCH. I recommend you also check out this PCH blog article to see how you can prevent scammers from contacting you on Facebook: http://bit.ly/StopFBScammers. Stay safe everyone and be careful of scammers pretending to be the REAL Prize Patrol!
Publishers Clearing House has given away billions. Is it possible to get a loan of 11,000,000.00 at 4.2 interest rate from Publishers Clearing House to build my family a complete self sustaining solar powered for sunny days, wind powered for stormy windy days and water powered for rainy days, Home and fully organic all green small community? With options to pay off early with no penalties at a very low payment of $1000.00 a month and no payment for 24 months or until profits of $1000.00 or more a month rolls in As a very easy to qualify loan for mid to lower class people that want to better earth and their families living condition and health!! I don’t want a hand out unless I really do beat the odds of winning which is really really really very slim chance. It’s in the billions I do believe. Back to the questions and facts. The loan will be paid back by the organic farm and animals we will produce! Along with totally green products! Is this something Publishers Clearing House does or will do in the future? If so please contact me….
Hey there Susan Williamson, I just signed in for the grand prize for 15,000,000 a week through a Steve Harvey commercial I hope I have your support in becoming a winner, thank you.