1. Award Notification Commission

Scam Example: Federal Marshals Delivering PCH Prizes Scam artists use many different tactics to fool you into trusting them. One of them is to pose as the most trustworthy kind of person, a law enforcement official. One famous scam example is a person claiming to be a federal marshall on the Publisher's Clearing House. The sweepstakes scam starts with a phone call from someone claiming to be a federal marshal, a sheriff, or another type of law enforcement agent. They tell their victim that they are working with the PCH Prize Patrol, and they are going to deliver a prize of $90,000 or more to the victim's home. They just need the so-called winner to wire them some money first to cover 'insurance' or other fees.

Award notification commission.po box 2905.i Larry hourd. You have won!$1,325,000.00.this bee goin on for years.WHY? May 09, 2014 Hello all, I just got the same letter as others have reported here, from 'Award notification commission PO Box 2905 KC, KS 66110' Authorized by 'Larry.

This should immediately be a huge red flag. Legitimate sweepstakes never ask you to pay taxes, insurance, or other fees before releasing the prize.

If a real law enforcement officer does call your home, you can always ask for a name, department, and badge number, and call their precinct or agency to verify that the officer is legitimate. It'll be hard to overlook a real PCH win, since the Prize Patrol will show up at your door with champagne, flowers, and an oversized check! Sweepstakes Scam Example: Larry Hourd and the Kansas City Award Notification Commission This scam is just barely legal, but it clearly tries to trick people into sending money to win a prize, something that no legitimate giveaway would ever do. It works like this: the scam victim receives an official-looking letter in the mail from Larry Hourd and the Kansas City Award Notification Commission, which seems to state that he or she has won a huge prize worth a million dollars or more The letter also appears to request a fee (sometimes reported as $11.89, sometimes more) to claim the prize. At this point, your alarm bells should be ringing. Hopefully, you know you never need to pay to claim a prize, and you know that you wouldn't be able to claim a prize that large without an. If you read the fine print carefully, you'll find that the company is misleading you.

You haven't won a prize yet. Rather, you will win a prize if you return the entry form and if your randomly-assigned number matches the winning number. And what are the odds of that happening? Oh, and that fee? It's actually just to get a coupon book, nothing to do with the sweepstakes at all. So is it a legal giveaway? Maybe, but I wouldn't give my information to any company that used tactics that are so misleading.

For more information, watch this from the Better Business Bureau. Sweepstakes Scam Example: Text Message Prize Scams Your cell phone buzzes, you check your texts or your WhatsApp messages and good news! You've won a prize! Gift cards are common prizes to lure people into this scam since they are exciting, but not big enough to automatically set off alarm bells. The text includes a link to claim your prize and to get more information. But clicking on that link can be dangerous. There are several ways that scammers can take advantage of that link click.

They can use it to install malicious software on your phone to steal your personal information, to trick you into agreeing to pay monthly charges, to forward the scam to your contacts, to lead you to a spoof site to steal personal information, and more. The best policy is to not respond to the text in any way and to delete it to your phone. If you have received any of these sweepstakes scams, do not engage with the scammers. Instead, and help them gather the information they need to shut down the scam.

Award Notification Commission

My mother got one today. I read all the complaints online and can only say: You DO NOT send money to someone to receive 'winnings'. If you did, you didn't read All the fine print first before jumping to conclusions and'spending your winnings you haven't even won. He isn't getting caught simply because he's actually selling a coupon book or a little necklace or some other things that you Do have coming to you but you're all so distracted by the sweepstakes offer that you think you have grounds for a class action suit, which is laughable. If he's guilty of anything, it's not sending ya'll your 'purchased' item, but you're all guilty of being gullible enough to fall for the sweepstakes lure. Please people!

Stop behaving like you were born yesterday. Today I've thought my struggles were over after seing the letter from ANC stating I've won 1,325,000,000. I believed it to be legit becas it came first class, until I google it right after I sent in the 14.39 speedy money order. Everybody saying exactly what I read on the two letters from the same guy Larry Hurd, I'm about to actually cry because I really believed it. THIS NEEDS TO STOP ASAP.

This is not right at all.😠If there is a class action suit against these ppl in kansas city please don't forget to include me. You can reach me at diadia62003@yahoo.com. I just received a very official looking awards notification outlined in red (Larry Hourd on behalf of the AWARD NOTIFICATION COMMISSION PO Box 2905 Kansas City KS 66110' and postmarked Kansas City, MO) 'OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF CERTIFIED AWARD and provision of payment' with possibility (that it is just a possibility is very understated in the letter) of winning $1,325,000.00 dollars.

This was very much worded for options of spending it, just like a certain huge sweepstakes that is very well known. I do wonder if they sell their mailing lists now. The giveaway that this is a scam is how they give options for spending your possible winnings, just like the larger well known sweepstakes, and how they try to trick people into thinking they have to pay a fee to send it in and with careful reading you see they have the 'mandatory fee' only if you want some ungrammatically described crystal bar necklace. There are several grammatical errors in the letter and return form.

They also imitate the well known sweepstakes also by sending a same size odds of winning disclosure slip with the rest of the falsifications. To top it off they ask for/require your signature at bottom right. The manner in which they word how you can wear the necklace is particularly suspicious, with unconventional grammar. There are so many complaints about this same fake corporate sweepstakes entity.

Why hasn't this obvious scam been shut down? The Complain is SIMPLE: SOMEONE NEED STOP THIS GUYS!!! Today I received the letter No.

3 about winning $2.000.000.oo Dollars and I Can't Believe this Guys still sending this Letter! I sent my money fee, but after I received the 2nd Letter, I suspect about the SCAM! So, If there are more people writing about it, it means that this guys STILL doing a CRIMINAL action. So, PLEASE contact the Police or a properly agency, so they stop this SCAM! For me the fee is whatever at this point, they need to go on Jail for it!