caller claims to be daniel hightower from publisher clearinghouse.they called to inform me i have won 2.5 million dollars..they gave me names of 3 people who will deliver the check to my home..told me the check was wachovia bank check. gave me a security password. then he said he needs a green pak from walmart for registration fees of 250. dollars. when i told him i did not have that kind of money he said he will call verfication dept and get back to me. the 3 names he gave were miss linda davis mr ryan christopher and an attorney named miss rose carr. he said the phone was being monitered by fbi to avoid scammers.
caller claims to be daniel hightower from publisher clearinghouse.they called to inform me i have won 2.5 million dollars..they gave me names of 3 people who will deliver the check to my home..told me the check was wachovia bank check. gave me a security password. then he said he needs a green pak from walmart for registration fees of 250. dollars. when i told him i did not have that kind of money he said he will call verfication dept and get back to me. the 3 names he gave were miss linda davis mr ryan christopher and an attorney named miss rose carr. he said the phone was being monitered by fbi to avoid scammers.
Prize Offers: You Don’t Have to Pay to Play!
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/telemarketing/tel17.shtm
excerpt from FTC CONSUMER ALERT
A Dozen Ways to Protect Yourself
The next time you get a "personal" letter or telephone call telling you "it’s your lucky day," the Federal Trade Commission encourages you to remember that:
1. Legitimate sweepstakes don’t require you to pay or buy something to enter or improve your chances of winning, or to pay "taxes" or "shipping and handling charges" to get your prize.
If you have to pay to receive your "prize," it’s not a prize at all.
Today a man calling himself Daniel Hightower called and informed me that I was a winner in PCH. The amount was 2,5 million. He left the message on my answering machine and asked me to call him back, which I did. I got someone's cell phone in North Carolina or that's where he said he was anyway.