876-595-6877

Receive a call and the man said I had won $1,000,000.00 dollars and I need to have $499.00 dollars so I could receive the money upon delivery of the million dollars
Must be a scam

Think. Please think. They can 'give' you a million dollars, but you have to 'pay' to get it? On payday from work, or a large US Lottery, how are the taxes paid? Do you send cash to your employer, & are then paid? Do you send 'Powerball' a check to get the mega millions? It ALWAYS comes off at the source. NEVER pay money to get money. It's a scam every time.

Just got a call from this number. They claimed I won 2nd place. But the last time I entered a Publishers Clearing House was like 20 years ago. He had me right down a claim number then said it was for winning with US Mega Million Lottery. which I have never heard of and said I would need to pay over a $1000 to receive my winnings. As soon as I said "If this is real I wouldn't have to pay anything to receive 'my winnings'" and that this was fraud and I was going to call the Better Business Bureau, he hung up with no attempt to say that I was wrong.

Don't fall for this if you are a winner then any fees that you owe you will pay from your winnings not to get your winnings.

"Hello I am David Washington calling from The Publisher's Clearinghouse to inform you that you have won the lottery.
You have won the lottery in the amount of $252,000.  $252,000.  Hello?  You have won the lottery.  Do you remember playing the lottery?

a man named David Whiteman call me and said I won millions of dollars but I had to pay $400. I asked him could he take the money out of my winnings. then he dropped it down from 400 to $150. I told him I can't do it. and hung the phone up

These people are beyond dangerous. Do NOT return their calls or engage them. This is the notorious Jamaican lottery scam. They bankrupted a woman and when she told them she had no more money, they threatened to kill her.

DO NOT return the call from someone calling from a 876 area code.
876 is not a "Toll Free 800 number", it's the international long distance code for the island national of Jamaica.
Jamaica scammers have long used the miss conception to trick victims into calling back, sometimes dinging large long distance/international call rates along with tricking money out of them.
Other international/long distance area codes are 809, 284, and 649.
http://www.att.net/smartcontrols-809AreaCode

Scammers use these numbers to not only try to scam you out of money, but also sting you with high phone call rates.
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0119-jam ... ng-us-consumers
http://www.dhs.gov/news/2013/03/13/written-te ... 2%80%9C876-scam

Do report the calls, Jamaican and US officials are still actively tracking down and arresting the offenders:
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-8476d8cae08c200 ... -bites-the-dust
https://800notes.com/forum/ta-a1b4e9c40adfb53 ... -scam-operation

Also:
It is a scam:
http://info.pch.com/consumer-information/fraud-protection

Publishers Clearing House never requires any money, purchases, taxes, fees, or deposits of any kind to get your prize.

Publishers Clearing House DOES NOT call, email, FAX, mail, any advanced notice that you have won.

"If you are ever contacted by someone claiming to represent PCH, or claiming to be one of our employees,  and asked to send or wire money (for any reason whatsoever, including taxes); or send a pre-paid gift card or Green Dot Moneypak card in order to claim a sweepstakes prize – DON’T!  It’s a SCAM. If you are sent a check, told it’s a partial prize award, and asked to cash it and send a portion back to claim the full prize award, DON’T.  The check is fake, but the SCAM is real!

Publishers Clearing House does not operate this way and would NEVER ask for money to claim a prize award.  PCH employees would never contact you personally or in advance to notify you of a prize award.  Our prize awards are presented just the way you see in our popular TV commercials, ‘live and in person’ by our Prize Patrol, with balloons, champagne and check in hand - - and with no advance notification!

David Whiteman just called me as a UPS Agent - United States Postal Service (then explained the big brown truck that pulls up to deliver the publishers clearing house prize) & told me I won 3rd place for 200k & a gold brief case. He's calling from Florida ph#1-239-300-7107. When I asked for his extension he told me it was 8764790042. I was instructed to write down a pckg#, a code# & asked to repeat it back. I was then informed I must call the "registration number" 1-866-996-5997 where I can "verify myself' through a photo id or passport. When I didn't call him back he called to ask me if I tried to. I said no but, he's actually popular on the internet & I asked him if there's a charge involved in our transaction. He stated he had to go because he was getting a very important phone call- I wished him luck in getting lots of $$ from ppl for their prizes & he said F~@*! U & hung up on me. I'd definitely call this a scam.