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visvern

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2012, 01:54:57 pm »
 :wave: is this same pch ed mcmahan use to pitch?

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #16 on: November 16, 2012, 02:20:02 am »
sorry this happened to you..got to be careful about ever giving any information online, on the phone or anywhere..

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #17 on: November 16, 2012, 05:49:23 am »
They did not show up like this guy David Sawyer said. On pch website they have link to click on just for scams.  I called that and also my local police dept. I dont trust anything like that. A few months back I was contacted by a David Sawyer on facebooking asking me to send them a 500.00 check. I kept asking him questions and he was getting annoyed. I told him also that pch never asks you for money and that is why he dropped it. Yesterday I am not sure what the deal was but Im not any richer than other day. I was told they problably bought my name through phishing. So please everyone beware.

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2012, 06:12:54 am »
SORRY THAT ThIs HAPPEn

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #19 on: November 17, 2012, 08:43:44 am »
i wouldnt think they would call before they showed coz they like to see ur reaction when they show up coz they want to have it on tv. :thumbsup:

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2012, 11:44:36 am »
Thanks for sharing this information.  I'm glad you were in high alert mode.

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2012, 02:08:52 pm »
OH, that is horrible.  What a let down.  Glad you were smart enough to follow through and see if it was legite.  So many weirdos out there these days.

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2012, 02:21:43 pm »
I don't think PCH is a scam but like someone else on here said, it is just really hard to win anything.  My mother-in-law used to order magazines thru PCH in hopes of winning.  She would send the subscriptions to me too in hopes of bettering her chances by ordering more but I never did have time to read the magazines I got.  After she passed away it was a long time before PCH stopped sending her things in the mail.  Needless to say my father-in-law did not carry on with what she had started.  lol  I used to enter the sweepstakes myself but never ordered anything. 

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2012, 04:06:45 pm »
The man that won just a couple of months in my town did not receive call first he thought for sure they were there to collect money he owed them lol but he did indeed win I never knew for sure but to see it just a few miles from me proved it does happen  but according to all the news hoopla they do not call first

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2012, 06:42:19 pm »
I'm sorry you had that done to you, but it's true as far as I know Publisher Clearing House as alway surprise their winners. It's part of the media to get their reaction.  :sad1:

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2012, 11:58:36 am »
I wasnt  trying to tell anyone that pch was fake. I was just alerting everyone they do not call your house first. I had went on the pch website and called the 800#. I dont want anyone getting scammed. They seem to be targeting the elderly in Ohio.

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Re: Scam alert: Publishers Clearing House
« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2012, 01:00:30 pm »
I think that PCH is and always has been nothing but a SCAM!   Whenever I see things from them in the mail, I put return to sender on the envelope and mail them back!

LOL that's clever!  I never thought of doing that.  Does the postal service always comply?
I'm sorry if my recondite verbiage is a little difficult to understand sometimes.  Using fancy vocabulary really is fun, you should try it!


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