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Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is an American company founded in 1953 by Harold Mertz. It was originally founded as an alternative to door-to-door magazine subscription sales by offering bulk mail direct marketing of merchandise and periodicals. They are most widely known for their sweepstakes and prize-based
PCH Games (formerly Candystand.com) is a casual game portal owned by Publishers Clearing House and based in New York City. Launched in 1997 as The Candystand, [ 1 ] by LifeSavers Company, a division of Nabisco , Inc., [ 2 ] it was the first major advergame portal available on the World Wide Web.
Of those three companies, only Publishers Clearing House continues to use sweepstakes as a promotional device and as recently as 2010 paid $3.5 million to settle charges that it had violated the terms of a 2001 multi-state agreement for which it was fined $34 million. [13] [14]
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 ...
Publishers Clearing House agreed to pay $3.5 million, not to a lucky prize winner, but to a collection of states that accused the marketing company of once again misleading consumers. A decade ...
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 ...
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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].The $25,000 Pyramid host Dick Clark was a spokesperson for AFP as well. [1] PCH remains in business and promotes its products by means of sweepstakes.