Publishers Clearinghouse fibbed to me

MY STORY

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

My name is Ronald D. Cummings. In 1989 I had a stroke and could not go back to work on the drilling rigs which I had worked on for over 14 years. I had to go to the doctor a lot and now had no income.

I had entered Publishers Clearing House contests many times in the past so I started doing it again even though we did not really have the money to spend. My wife, who worked in a nursing home, let me go ahead and order things from them from time to time.

About every time I would send one out I would get one back that would even sound better to me.

I ordered rings, little things and I liked the books, but what I liked the best of all - every time I would receive something my chances of winning sounded better.

I guess you could say I was hooked by now on their enticing contests. This went on until 1998 when I got the draft stating that I had just won $3,500,000.00.

So you can see that it made me so happy and excited. I first told my wife about it she thought I was crazy then I showed it to her. About 2 weeks before that I knew that I was going to win because I got a letter from Ms. Dorothy Addes saying that I would be a PCH prize winner and sure enough it came in the mail. I got a draft for the 525 giveaway drawing with super prize numbers that matched and had been verified in my name. They said so. It went on that I should paid as soon as they got my payment preference, by check, wire transfer or to a bank of my choosing.

All of these were on the back of a check all I had to do was to mark the one that I wanted and send the check back and they were ready to send me a real check for the full $3,500,000.00. I took it to the post office and got a copy made stating that I preferred being paid by check and sent it back the same day I got it.

The wining number was selected on April 13 1998 so when I did not hear from them I started writing letters to a Mr. Daniel P. Doyle but the answer I got was that he did not work there so I wrote to Ms. Addes and was told the same thing so I wrote to David Sayer who was to come over the prize patrol and they never heard of him either. This was very strange.

So I started all over again but this time I registered letters and every one of them was signed for. I thought that it was kind of funny these people didn't work there or have never been heard of but yet these letters were sign for.

So then this had been going on for a long time so I went to the West Virginia Attorney-General. They took civil action against Publishers Clearing house but didn't do anything. After awhile I got a letter from them stating that they could not help me so now I am trying to get what is owed me by other means.

I have copies of all papers sent and received. Many people around here, including the post master was there when I copied the winning check stating how I was to be paid. I won't quit until they pay me what they say I won in their letters.

Ronald D Cummings

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Additional NOTES about Ron

When Ron called PCH about Daniel P. Doyle their treasurer, the people at PCH told him they had never heard of him. Or even Dave Sawyer of the prize patrol - they said they didn't work there and had never heard of him either. Why is that?

* When the West Virginia Attorney general was approached about if anyone else thought they had won by what they had read from PCH correspondence we were told ten's of thousands of people filed complaint papers. Wow, that is a lot. It's not just us. How many more were there that didn't go to the trouble of filing a complaint?

* Why tell someone they had won if they didn't? That is not making fun, it is mean and cruel. People tell their friends and relatives and sometimes make major changes in their life such as put a non refundable down payment on a fancy car. "Hah, you were tricked - you get nothing!"

* They may say the winning letter was just a draft. To me "Draft" is a quickly worded accurate letter of the real thing - with a perfected copy coming shortly - not a totally false made up cruel lie. They just waste millions of people's time with their "just kidding" letter.

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Ron received the winning letter that had stated several times that he had definitely, without doubt won. Soon after that he received another letter from a Dorothy Otto stating that Dave Sawyer of the Prize Patrol wanted to keep it a secret that Ron had won the big one until he saw him in person to give him the money. But Dorothy said he had the right to know (so he could start doing his future financial planning?) She said she wasn't supposed to tell anyone but said Ron had the right to know that he had won the major prize as soon as it was known. She said it had also been verified by an outside law firm so everyone was good to go. Wouldn't you think Ron should be a very excited guy after all this confirmation? So if they told him and confirmed his winning - where is the money? If someone hadn't won why ask them how they want to be paid? If I was not going to pay you $100 why ask if you wanted to be paid in 10's or 20's?
PCH owes Ron his money.
If this goes to a jury PCH isn't going to get out of paying it. People are tired of these misleading letter too. They may even add substantial punitive damages to the award.

* They say they aren't doing false statements anymore... an envelope just came stating "Is Chloe resident, XX, ready to win $5,000 a a week for life? and at the bottom of the same envelope: Wow, Someone with the initials XX will be a winner! Are they really?