How to spot lottery scams! Scambusters

[Taz_Zoee]

Any Publisher's Clearing House mail I ever got (since childhood) said you had to do something - mail something back in - in order to be entered into the sweepstakes.

That is correct. My mom is into PCH big time. She used to always mail in the required document. Now she just has to go online each day to enter.

It is sad that the elderly are taken advantage of with things like this. We had it happen in one of our associations at work. It was a mess because the scammer ended up taking the title of the house away from the man. It finally got straightened out (after several years and even after the man passed away, his daughter was still fighting).

[Catty1]

In the olden days of PCH, it was a question of how they got your address in the first place if you'd never entered before. Mailing lists.