Victim Location 53226
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes
They said they were publishers clearing house and called me on July 21, 2020 stating that I won second place in the PCH sweepstakes. They left me a number to call: 1-516-441-9476. and said to ask for Mr. Livingston. I call and left a couple of messages. They ask you to leave your name, the state you are calling from and your phone number. After a month a Mr. David Ross called me back (Aug.28,2020) and said that I won 2.5 million dollars, a red Mercedes car, and an advanced cash payment on my credit cards of $705,000. Well it all sounded too good to be truth after he asked me some questions he asked me to verify my name, address, phone number, last four numbers of my social security and my date of birth. I answered all his questions then he some how asked me for the first 5 numbers of my social got me off guard and I gave it to him. Then he started asking me for a major credit card and my bank information and it had to be a credit card from the bank. I gave him all my information cause you think of publishers clearing house and you think that it is real, I see it on TV all the time, but then he started asking me for my bank information my account number routing number and my credit card information cause he said they needed that so that they can put the money in and of course I believed him. He asked me how much money I had for cash advance I told him the amount gave him my cell number cause he asked me how far my bank was and to get my id, my social security card, and my credit card and to go to the bank. He was on the phone this whole time and told me to go to the parking lot and to say ok when I got there cause he was still on the phone. Once I got there he told me to go to the drive through and ask for cash advancement for the amount that I had on my credit card which in my case was 7,300.00 so I asked him why they need that money and he said you have to pay taxes on what you won so I told him that for the amount of money that I won that it would be more money then what I had and that if I really won that they could just take it out of the winnings. He said that they cover the rest of the taxes that once I gave them that money that everything was taking care of that his team was just waiting for me to make the withdraw and that they would meet me by my house with all my winnings within 15 min. He kept telling me to go through the drive through and to get the money so then I asked what am I going to do with this money he said you are going to do a deposit, or a transfer and he kept telling me to go to the drive through. After a while I told him I couldn’t give him that money and he stayed on phone trying to convince me to go back to the bank and I told him that if I really won to give me my winnings and that then I would go and do the transfer. I hung up and he called me back on my house phone and he gave me an account number and routing number from the bank of America and he said that once I got the cash that I can put it back on my card that that account had more then a million dollars in it. After I kept saying that I wanted to see my winnings and that I wasn’t going to give him my money he put his manager on the phone a Mr. Gary Beaver and he kept telling me that it wasn’t a scam and that I was a loser for not taking my winnings that there were plenty of charities that didn’t deserve it and that they would get it because I was a loser and that I didn’t want my winnings and he hung up. Then David called me again and he kept saying he didn’t want me to lose out and he tried to get me to give him my password to do a transfer on line and I told him it was a scam and I hung up but during this time I had already given him all of my information my social, birthday, credit card information and my bank information. I am writing this because I don’t want anybody else to go through this and I hope it will help someone out there they trick you by telling you they need your information so that they can deposit it on your account after that then they tell you you first have to give them that money for the taxes on your winnings and though I didn’t give them my money I gave them all of my information which is probably worse.
Victim Location 53405
Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes
Caller stated I won $500,000 from PCH sweepstakes. I hung up on him.