876-529-2337

Got  a phone call from this number and they said that I had won a 2014 Mercedes and money from PCH,   i was asked to go to Walgreen and put some money on a card, I told them the PCH comes to your house and u dont have to purchase anything and he hung up.   Where are they getting our numbers from?

I just received the same 'great news', except he wanted me to go to 7-11 or my bank.

I got a call from this number on my cell phone. The guy with a thick accent started to tell me about some kind of clearing house.  I didn't wait around to figure out what his scam was. I hung up on him

My caller ID identified it as originating from Jamaica.

Same thing here. ID said call was from Jamaica.  Said I won $3 million and a Mercedes.  He asked me if I was home, I said I was at work but my wife was home.  He asked for her number.  I said "she is home, you do not need to call her".  Then he said "Give me her number", at which point I hung up on him.
Once you get them off script, their thieving nature comes through.

DO NOT CALL THAT NUMBER BACK!

1) The call was from a scammer, trying to entice you to send money
2) If you return the call, it will cost you money!  (Keep reading)
3) The 876 (Jamaica) prefix is VERY frequently used by scammers, and WILL cost you money if you call it back.

Some area codes are not toll-free numbers and calls from any other area code are billed at international long distance rates.

Some curious people return the call and will immediately be charged $19.95 for an international call fee and an additional $9-per-minute charge, according to a news release from the BBB.

Here is a list of some area codes that will be billed as international calls:

242- Bahamas    441 – Bermuda    784 – St. Vincent & Grenadines
246 – Barbados    473 – Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique    809, 829, 849 – Dominican Republic
264 – Anguilla    649 – Turks and Caicos    868 – Trinidad and Tobago
268 – Antigua    664 – Montserrat    876 – Jamaica
284 – British Virgin Islands    758 – St Lucia    869 – St. Kitts & Nevis
345 – Cayman Islands    767 – Dominica

More info:
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/Phone_ForeignAreaCodeScams.php
http://www.forbes.com/sites/josephsteinberg/2 ... des-its-a-scam/

I agree with all of the above.  I rec'd the same thing and it was a SCAM.

Mine was like Kelly's. A thick accented "David" said I won 3.4 mil and a "pearl white Mercedes". He said he was calling from a city about an hour from me. He claimed to be sponsored by PCH, and I'd entered by paying my utilities on time. They wanted me to go to the Walgreens while he stayed on the phone with me.  I googled PCH and found it was a scam. He hung up when I said I wouldn't send money.

 These cockroaches called my cell phone and when I didn't answer the little cockroach called again !!  Tarring and feathering wouldn't be a harsh enough punishment !!  Scammers need to go !!

Glad I looked them up at the phone number. The PCH was a hint. An $850,000 Pearl White Mercedes was another. Going to any Western Union and sending $399.99 to a Marion Green was another hint. Not knowing if they were traveling from Ridgecrest or Richmond was another. That the car was going to be driven by Marion Green (attorney?), but delivered by UPS. Since when does UPS deliver cars?
This is similar to an attempted scam on Craig's List.

big scam don't pay attention to whatever they say

Told me in a thick Jamaican accent he was from PCH and I had won 1.8 Million dollars. When I replied " Let me get this right, you're calling me from Jamaica to tell me I've won 1.8 Million dollars?" he became profane and insulting.

The person that telephoned me said that he was from publishers clearing house.

Things to believe:

• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
• If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
• You have not won big bucks from a benign benefactor, a pot of pesos from PCH, dinero from a doctor, a car from a caller, or a grant from a gracious government    ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄-
• The tooth fairy really does not exist
• Everything you read on the internet is not necessarily true.
• It is illegal to ask for money for a loan or prize, before awarding the loan or prize!
• "Free Trips" are loaded with mandatory & costly extras, and you usually must give them your card number after listening to a loooong spiel at a hotel.
• Microsoft or a different famous software company, or one of their agents did NOT cold call you to fix your computer.
• The moon is not made of green cheese.
• The IRS will snailmail you, rather than phone you, if there is a problem.
• Jackalope milk is not an aphrodisiac.
• If you Vanilla Card, MoneyGram or Western Union money to a scammer, the money is gone.
• You should beware of Geeks bearing gifts, specially if the gift is a wooden horse with termites, or a statement that your computer is infected.
• 876 is NOT your lucky number, and it will cost you money to call that area code!
• The number you see on your Caller ID may not be the number of the person who called you!

More information on those scams (and others) may be found at
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html

Remember to return here, to 800notes.com, after you look at any of the information at that site, either to post more information, or to let us know you avoided the scam.

person with a muffled voice (as if disguised) just called me and said I was being awarded $250,000 and asked if this was the first time I had been contacted. I stated that this was a business line and that I wanted to know the name of his company. He hung up. their phone number was listed as from Jamaica 876-529-2661

Male caller with accent identified himself as David Johnson with Publisher's Clearing House.  Wanted to know if I was at home or at work.  I asked him to repeat himself, he did and I hung the phone up.  This was on my cell phone which is registered on the Do Not Call list.

I just got this call, told him I would have to call back later so he agreed.  I then Googled the number and came across this information...Thanks to you all.

Guy sounded India. Said I won pch and he was in my town to give me 450,000 and didn't know there is a Walmart in town. Wanted a money gram for 400$ told I wasn't gonna pay any money over 10 to get a "government stamped receipt"  . Because that's  all I got till payday and he sounded surprised and asked if I wanted my reward. I said yeah I want money . He asks so about how many minutes before I can have the money to send for " the government receipt" ( should have wasted this guy's whole day like this) told him he is full of [***] pch doest have an Indian guy with a Canadian phone # call to say you need to send money! Have fun scamming people " and hung up" spammers make me sick low life's feed off people who are already low on money. ( this happenedition 1 week after I signed up for jobster to find a better job. (Got another call from someone else just now asking person info so he could find me a job Jesus christ!)

I got a call saying I won money and did I want my prize I said no please do not call me again and hung up. He called back several times and I answered and he said why you hang up to which I  said I asked you to not call me again. He then started saying extremely inappropriate and vile things about what he would like to do to me. Disgusting.

SCAM