Do You Have to Pay to Claim a PCH Prize?
Greetings, fans and friends!
Do you have to pay to claim a PCH prize? If you’ve won a Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, is there a fee in order to receive your winnings?
The answer is absolutely NOT. Not only are PCH sweepstakes and giveaways always FREE to enter, you never have to pay a penny to claim a PCH prize – of any amount – EVER!
In fact, if anyone tells you – either by phone; email; or social media like Facebook or Twitter or Instagram; that you’ve won a PCH prize and you must make some sort of payment in order to claim it, THIS IS A SCAM!
Paying to Claim a Prize? That’s a PCH Scam!
Let’s break it down here:
- Publishers Clearing House would never ask you to pay to claim a prize of any amount.
- Publishers Clearing House would never call winners in advance, would never send you a Facebook friend request, and would never engage in any other type of social media conversation with you!
- For major prizes, the PCH Prize Patrol will deliver your prize check to you in person – along with balloons, champagne and roses.
- If you are asked to send cash or a check … or purchase a Green Dot MoneyPak prepaid card or any other cash card – DON’T DO IT! The scammer will ask for the numbers located on the back of the card. Once they have this information they are able to access the money quickly. And once the money is gone, it’s gone forever.
There are NEVER any fees to claiming a prize!
If there’s one thing to remember here, fans and friends, it’s that if you become a PCH prize winner, we pay YOU! You NEVER have to pay us.
At Publishers Clearing House the winning is ALWAYS FREE, and there are NEVER any fees to claiming a prize! If someone tells you that you’ve won a prize, but that in order to claim it you need to give them money for any reason – STOP – it’s a SCAM!
I hope I’ve made this all perfectly clear. At PCH, we love to make entering enjoyable and exciting, we love to award prizes and we love to make dreams come true!
If you believe you’ve been contacted by a scammer, please fill out our Scam Incident Report right away!
Stay safe … and have fun!
Debbie K.
PCH Creative
P.S. If you’ve learned one important lesson from this blog, what is it? Please comment below!
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