My grandmother received a letter in the mail supposedly from "Publishers Clearing House" proclaiming she was the winner of 1,000, 000.00's and was up for an entry to win 10,000, 000.00. However, they enclosed a check for $4,790.00 to cover fees. The two points of contact listed were for a representative and supposedly and Internal Revenue agent. Ofcourse each number went to a number never answered by a live agent only voicemail. After leaving a message I got online to research the companies that were listed on the check. I found it rather odd that Publishers Clearing House would send out 3rd party checks. Concophilips and Deutsche Bank Trust, are the companies listed on the check. Deutsche Bank deals with Global financial matters and Concophilips is based in Tenessee and not Oaklahoma which was printed on the check. A representative called us back and continued to ask my grandmother questions like: Do you own your home or rent? Are your property taxes paid? And he kept asking her was she excited to know she had one a million dollars. I asked him what did this have to do with her claiming her winnings and it seemed like he was not very quick with his responses. I then told him about my looking up the companies on line and why would Publishers Clearing house send out 3rd party checks? He pretended like he was placing us on hold and never came back to the phone! I reported this to publishers clearing House and they in turn said this has been an on going problem. People would deposit the checks and these people would trick people into sending some of the cash back after all you are supposedly a millionaire now! So what is 4,000.00? Not realizing these checks are not real and you will end up owing your bank for a fraudulant check! We also reported it to our local police department and were told that there were many other scams going on especially requesting information on the phone from the elderly!
Beware!!!
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