Got a new phone number from the Kansas based sweepstakes...which has been in business since 1999 but has NEVER paid out any of the winnings....I got a call from 620-904-4109 stating that I had won 4.5 million and a Mercedes and that I had to send $400 to cover the taxes, red flags went up then. My wife got online and searched the phone number which is a Kansas number but the lady, Kathy, stated she had just gotten off a plane in Florida, where we live, and was getting in the truck with the car on it and would be at my home at 9:30am. Well, 9:30am rolled around and no one showed and around 10am she called again stating that the partial payment of $165 I had stupidly sent the night before wasn't going to allow her to bring that amount of money into the state that I had to send all of it to her in order for her to show up with the car and cash. I asked her why she told me that she had just gotten off an airplane in my city when in fact she had not even left her home. This "Kathy" person claims to be the director of the sweepstakes company but she couldn't give me any info for me to call to verify she was legit, she had in fact told me that "now Mr. Simmons you are just wasting my time" and then hung up the phone. She claims to be sending me back the $165 I sent her but I'll not hold my breath....how do these people sleep at night? I hope that God gets them for what they are doing to innocent people, I'm just glad I didn't send the rest of the money and caught on when I did.
Caller said that Ihad won 4Millon and it would be delivered to my front door by 3 PM. All i had to do was send him a deposit of $850.00. I said thank you and hung up. WHAT A SCAM
Called my aging mother-in-law and convinced her she had won a brand new Mercedes Benz, also convinced her to wire $4,000 to them. She's convinced they're going to show up at her door today giving her money back AND the car! How can we stop these scammers?!
i got a call from Dave Moore he said i won $4million and a Mercedes Benz and would be delivered next day all i had to do was give them $2,500 to cover taxes i said BYE and hung up he called back with the same message about winning a prize from Publishers Clearing House SCAM SCAM SCAM!!!!!D
Dave Moore called and identified himself as being with Publishers clearing house. He said I won 4.5 million dollars and a Mercedes Benz car. Wanted me to wire 250.00 through Western Union. I called PCH and they confirmed it was a scam. Turns out number he gave me to contact his manger Mark Stewart at 876-467-2488 was in Jamaica. He called back trying to assure me it was not a scam. When I told him I knew otherwise he hung up. BEWARE!!!!
@ Renie. We had the same happen but he want us to get in our car right away and go to Western Union and wire $450.00. Went through the whole thing about what newspaper we wanted to use, what TV service we wanted it advertised on.
Told us basically the exact same thing. He was Dave Moore from Publishers Clearing House and we won 4.5 million dollars and a Mercedes Benz. Hung up on him and he too called back insisting it was for real.
I did a search on this 408-550-9897 and it is based in 2 locals in CA. BEWARE!!!!!