I got the same phone call today claiming to be from publishers clearing house with a certified check for me and wanted to know when I would be home.  I told him he could deliver it to my job which is a Law Enforcement agency and he hung up on me. LOL

Today (2014-02-03) my voice-mail box was called by "Tom Parker" from "the Publisher's Clearing House" to deliver to me a "certified cashier's check written from the Bank of America for 950,000 U. S. Dollars".  The call raises numerous red flags.  (i) I never enter PCH Sweepstakes.  (ii) The check has to be delivered "today".  (iii and iv) The caller will deduct the tax; translation: to receive my $ 950,000, I must send a check to the caller for some innumerable thousands of "U. S. Dollars" (a term for dollar used outside, not inside, the U. S.).  (v) The caller's "toll-free number", viz, 876-593-4162, is not from a toll-free area code, but from a Jamaican area code.  In fact, the call was made from 876-289-8068.

Got the same call today. "Tom Parker" has a check for ME for the same amount.  I want this little worm to deliver it to me...so I can thank him personally. Just take the gas money outta my big ol' check. Scammers should be publicly flogged.

Update: I listened to the message and I was "surprised" to learn I got a call from Tom who claimed he had a certified check from Publisher's Clearing House in my name for the amount of $950,000 that had to be handled today.  I am pretty sure all I need to do is give them my checking account number and social security number in order to release the funds and be on my way to happy land.

This is absolutely a fraud.

Missed call from an unknown caller.  Did a reverse lookup and found no results, did a Google search on the phone number and came to this site.  I learned this is a Jamaica area code and I suspect its fraudulent in some form or fashion.