Consumers Clearing House

Victim Location 73159

Type of a scam Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

We received a call on February 20, 2017 from Consumers Clearing House Sweepstakes saying we had won $800,000 and they would deliver it the following Thursday, 2/23/17, between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm brought by Global Security Express. They then transferred me to their lawyer, Andrew Falco, at Internationl Tax (512-696-1418) to talk about the winnings. He said we would owe $345,000 in taxes (43.2%), but they had gotten it down to $105,000 (13.1%). He then said they had called Union Bank International of SE Asia in Mosule and they would take only $1500 (10%) to take care of it. I told him we felt this was too good to be true and he told us to hang up and call the Federal Gaming Commission at 202-379-1884 and gave us a claim # to verify our winning. I told him to send everything in writing from his law firm but he wanted us to call the Fed. Gaming Commission. We hung up and called the ScamPulse.com. We have not heard from them since.