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Publishers Clearing House: The Original Data Broker | Multi-Level-Mondays

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Go to http://mintmobile.com/mlm to get 3 months free when you buy any 3-month plan! Go to http://hellofresh.com/mlm65 to get 65% off plus free shipping. Go to http://blueland.com/mlm to take advantage of their best sale of the year. Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. Publisher’s Clearing House is known for giving their winners a thousand dollars a week for life. Is this too good to be true? PCH isn’t necessarily a scam, but people use their name like one constantly, calling up consumers and claiming they’ve won exorbitant amounts of money. Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/bbs97 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: @GThomasCraig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Fresh is cheaper than grocery shopping and 25% less expensive than takeout, so you can save money on dinner and put it towards holiday shopping.

0:08.0

Get 65% off plus free shipping with code MLM65 at hello fresh.com slash

0:14.1

melm 65.

0:15.5

If I say publisher's clearing, chances are that you'll imagine those giant checks for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.

0:30.0

And if you're a little bit older, then maybe you remember Ed McMahon, a celebrity host, being the one to show up with said check.

0:38.0

It's pretty much anyone's fantasy, right? Like, out of nowhere, you wake up one morning to a knock at your door and after

0:44.0

dragging yourself out of bed you find a camera crew waiting to tell you that you'll

0:47.4

never have to work again. The Prize Patrol has finally arrived and for the rest of your life you get an allowance of a

0:54.4

thousand dollars every single day. Now the odds might be slim but it's possible.

0:59.8

Maybe you'd rather have a lump sum which of course after taxes would be about 4 million dollars.

1:05.0

Either way, your chances of winning are about 1 in 30 million, proving what an absolute miracle this would be to someone's life.

1:12.0

And everyone knows these advertisements. an absolute miracle this would be to someone's life.

1:12.8

And everyone knows these advertisements, the idea that it could be you that commercials portray.

1:18.1

The people winning are just average everyday John and Jane Doe's, right?

1:21.8

If they can win, so could you. In fact, the ads have become

1:26.2

such a classic that they're a cultural reference by this point. Former Obama Chief of Staff,

1:31.4

Ram Emanuel, compared the stimulus bills to them, stating that rejecting

1:35.4

the checks is like, quote, denying ourselves an Ed McMahon moment, the grateful sequel of

1:40.8

Publishers Clearinghouse pleasure that would greet an envelope arriving from Obama.

1:45.0

But no one, and I mean pretty much no one, has ever gotten an Ed McMahon Publishers Clearinghouse moment.

1:52.0

Ed never actually worked for P.C. in the first place.

1:55.0

Instead, he was a spokesman for American Family Publishers,

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