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On an April afternoon, Penny Kuehl checked her mailbox and found a letter from the sweepstakes company Publishers Clearing House. In it was a check for $7,800.45.
Jun. 29—Scammers are using a Publisher Clearing House ruse as the latest tactic to take people's money. Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes are legitimate, however, scammers have honed in on a ...
Trio uses bogus sweepstakes prizes to scam people out of $1 million, feds say ... someone in Jamaica pose as a representative for Publisher’s Clearing House. The person used “lead lists ...
Publishers Clearing House surprises winners with a big check. But scammers hide behind the big name and ask for cash upfront to cover fees or taxes. Scammer told Michigan woman to send $4,800 to ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Publishers Clearing House (PCH) was a competitor to American Family Publishers that ran similar sweepstakes. The two companies were often mistaken for each other. Many believe, incorrectly, that Ed McMahon was the spokesperson for PCH. Star Search host Ed McMahon worked for only American Family Publishers according to a 1992 interview [7].
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In 1967 PCH ran its first sweepstakes as a way to increase subscription sales, [10] based on the sweepstakes held by Reader's Digest. [5] The first prizes ranged from $1 to $10 and entrants had a 1 in 10 chance of winning. After the sweepstakes increased response rates to mailings, prizes of $5,000 [7] and eventually $250,000 were offered. [11]