DO NOT return the call from someone calling from a 876 area code.
This is not a toll free "800" number, it is the international long distance code for the island nation of Jamaica. You are charged international and long distance rates for calling this number. Other international/long distance area codes are 809, 284, and 649.
http://www.att.net/smartcontrols-809AreaCode

Scammers use these numbers to not only try to scam you out of money, but also sting you with high phone call rates.

http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0119-jam ... ng-us-consumers
http://www.dhs.gov/news/2013/03/13/written-te ... 2%80%9C876-scam

Do report the calls, Jamaican and US officials are still actively tracking down and arresting the offenders:
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-8476d8cae08c200/another-%27mon%27-bites-the-dust

Also:
It is a scam:
http://info.pch.com/consumer-information/fraud-protection

They never require any money, purchases, taxes, fees, or deposits of any kind to get your prize.

Publishers Clearing House DOES NOT call, email, FAX, mail, any advanced notice that you have won.

"If you are ever contacted by someone claiming to represent PCH, or claiming to be one of our employees,  and asked to send or wire money (for any reason whatsoever, including taxes); or send a pre-paid gift card or Green Dot Moneypak card in order to claim a sweepstakes prize ? DON?T!  It?s a SCAM. If you are sent a check, told it?s a partial prize award, and asked to cash it and send a portion back to claim the full prize award, DON?T.  The check is fake, but the SCAM is real!

Publishers Clearing House does not operate this way and would NEVER ask for money to claim a prize award.  PCH employees would never contact you personally or in advance to notify you of a prize award.  Our prize awards are presented just the way you see in our popular TV commercials, ?live and in person? by our Prize Patrol, with balloons, champagne and check in hand - - and with no advance notification!"

This person called stating I won't 95,000 and that he was from the ups.... He said I needed to trust him once I said oh yea! Do you think I'm stupid he said well then f*** you bi*** and said I was a c*** sucker seriously these idiot sounded like he didn't knw how to speak...

Well he got your number by plugging in an area code and every exchange and number available in that area code and then set his auto dialer to call every one of those numbers.  Now by you calling him back, he will get your money because you probably just incurred international rates as well as a fee that will be billed by your phone carrier in the next cycle.  More than likely he is now laughing all the way to the bank.

So I received a call from this number so I asked him why are you calling me I don't know anyone from Jamaica and his response was I'm calling because I want your money so I told this filthy n***** you're not going to get my money and hung up on his dumbass and add it to my reject list this is some scam b***s*** and I don't know how in the hell he got my number.

SCAM!! I supposedly won 150,000 bucks and 2014 mercedes-benz.. they wanted my shipping address, credit card info and name? My question is if I won the stuff wouldnt they already know my name? Anyways, I hung up. :)

Got a call from this number at about 9 a.m. in Eastern AZ. Hung up on me after I told him I could not understand him. He claimed to be from UPS and Winners International. Nearly impossible to understand.

Received a call at 6:45am from a man who was hard to understand. Said he was calling from UPS in a town in my state about an award from Publishers Clearing House that I had won. He said it was one of the top 5 prizes and wanted to know if I had received notification in the mail. When I said I hadn't that is when he started to tell me that UPS was going to deliver my prize at 11:30 that morning but that to receive the delivery I had to show proof that I had paid a 1% fee of $735.00 that was to show the Federal Tax and FBI agencies that I had paid my fee. When I asked him who I was to pay the fee too, he gave me some woman's name, said she was with Some National Bank in Waco Texas. Needless to say the call was entertaining and I kept asking questions because the answers were ridiculous, he kept telling me to "really believe what he was saying, he was not lying and that I would be very happy". Finally I got tired and told him that I would call him back later and hung up. I reported the call to the FTC as instructed in these posts.

Got a call from a man this morning.  Hard time understanding him.  Told me I had won some money and wanted to be sure that someone would be at home for UPS to deliver it this morning.  I asked him how much I would have to pay to receive the "prize" and he told me $1,100.  I asked him why I was having to pay when I won something. Told him not send it that I wasn't paying for something that I had "won".  He said that I had to take it and I told him that I knew that this was a scam.  He called me a bi*** and I hung up the phone.  I called the police to tell them that this was going on and to warn others about this.  I hope that no one will fall for this mess.

received the same call and the caller was feeding my husband alot of crap about winning a car and having money in storage(what the heck is that) so he ask if it was a scam and she started yelling at him so he said to quit yelling at him and she wouldn't so he said goodby and hug up the phone.  She called right back so I ask her not to ever call here again and that is when she started calling me everthing prfane in her vocabulary.  This crap has got to stop

Moron called telling me had a package to deliver for me but needed credit card info.  Couldn't understand a word this piece of crap said besides wanting money and my credit card.  Huge scam if someone can afford to cut a check for 200k I'm pretty sure they can pay for shipping of that check. Go back to you own country and get a real job instead of scamming people.

Looks like this group is still at it. Missed a call from them at around 9am 3-20-2013. Hope they call back so the games can begin. They are in for a "pleasant" surprise!

Got a call from this number this morning asking for address to deliver a package I supposedly ordered, which I didn't. I would not give it to him. Then he said that the package was a check for $275,000 scam light started to ring a bell. Hung up, I will be blocking this number on my blacklist.

I was a construction worker, you know they make alot of money, But you don't know were out of work alot. The first day on the job you are working yourself out of the job. So when I received a call I wanted it to be true. I have been sending them money for 4 months until I ran out of money, but still calling. I must be dumb to think I still am getting out of debt. they have a new ploy, they call themselves F. B. I. and will get you  back all the money you lost. just sent me_$$$.  All numbers that start with 876 are suspect, and are overseas calls from Jamaica, so besides them taken your money their running up your phone bill. I have lost almost $30,000.
My entire life savings for my later years and,  no one could help at the time when I needed it. Some way to treat a Viet-man Vet. they also use 646, 702 no.

Got a call on my cell this morning from a man with funny accent (also sounded like he had a bad cleft palate). Told me he was calling from the US Postal service and I had won a prize, they were in a nearby town, and wanted to deliver it to my home. I started asking him how he got my number, that the post office does not give out prizes. He told me not to jump to conclusions. When I pressed him about what I "won" he said "a piece of rope and a tree" and then he hung up.  Am going to try to block this particular phone number even tho I am already registered with Do Not Call.

Person with strange accent called saying he was calling from UPS & wanted to know if I was going to be home in the afternoon because he was going to deliver a package to me. I told him I wasn't expecting a package from anywhere & asked where the package was from & he said something like some company in Dallas Tx. Couldn't understand him so I told him I was at work & couldn't talk to him anymore so he said ok, but to call him back at the number that registered on my phone. He said make sure you call me because u won a shopping spree at Walmart or Walgreens worth thousands of dollars. yea right!

I live in Big water, UT on the border of Utah and Arizona. The day I received calls from him I was up north in Murray, UT near Salt Lake City. He called me at 6am telling me I won 375,000 from a company called Winners International. Said he was with the UPS store in a city that neighbors mine, Page Arizona, and he wanted my address to bring me my check and take a photo of me with it, etc. When I explained I'm out of town, he wanted me to go to a Western Union and get a $250 protection receipt from Western Union or Walmart green dot. His accent sounded like he was from India. F****n Scammers.
It's a scam! Don't anyone fall for it. Also, he told me to call back and ask for Dyandra.

876-897-7482Calls daily usually twice in a row.  Next time they call I am going to answer and string them along.  Strong accent and they claim to be from publishers cleaning house...yes cleaning or UPS and they need to deliver me my prize money.  Makes me so mad.

i had several calls from this number..makn statements that ive won 375,000 dollars.and sayn im the only person that could recieve it.and that the government paid for my fees..yeah righy loser! its a scam! he wants me to get a protection receipt.from western union..wth? Someone stop this loser...stop calln me.

I've gotten two phone calls this morning from 876-897-7492, apparently from Jamaica.  I missed the first call so I hit callback, but after a few rings I hung up and decided to check the number online.  From what is written on this site, apparently it is a SCAM phone number.  I called my cell phone carrier to block this number.  My concern is how did they get my cell phone number?  Nothing is secure these days, so all I can say is be careful, if  you don't recognize an incoming number, maybe it is best not to pick up until you've checked the number online.

Caller stated he was calling from UPS and wanted my address, when I began questioning him he became very upset and screamed profanity at me also calling me a B***h

Received call from this number 3 times.  Needed my name & address to UPS me my Publishers Cleaning (yes cleaning) (something intelligible) winnings of  $ 275,000.  Hung up on him Sounded like he was from India but very very poor accent

This is one of the more active numbers, same group of social misfits......
Some info....They will claim to be from one of the following......
Gold Rush Casino
Publishers Clearing House
MGM Grand
American Money Payouts
US GOV'T Federal Grants
The IRS (for real hahaha)
UPS/FedEx
FBI/FEDERAL MARSHALLS
Of course NONE of it is true.......

The FBI doesn't deliver "Money" or pizzas...
UPS doesn't call customers.....
Areacode 876 is on the Mossell Cellular system in Kingston, Jamaica...
What you had on the end of that line was a dirty,black "Chimpanzee" dressed in filthy shorts and a ripped up wifebeater shirt. He was sitting in a small leanto with chickens/roosters running around (you can usually HEAR them in the background).His "Computer" was a "Etch-A-Scetch" that he was looking up your info on.
They DO use "MagicJacks" registered so they LOOK like they are in 702 (vegas) 775(reno) 305(florida) 256(alabama) and a few others....
BE SMART! ask yourself who in their right mind would hire someone that SOUNDS like these Dingbats?
The funny part, these dumbells don't realize just how STUPID they sound! Accent...what accent!

SO what can YOU do?????
Record the calls! Great for parties! when you tell them you are recording them they WILL go away!
Use fake names like Joe Namith, Joe Biden,Burt Reynolds..they have no idea who they are!!!
Use a fake address, vacant lot, abandoned building, police station..you get the idea :)
WASTE THEIR TIME!!!! this is a big one :) hahaha ask them to repeat themselves over and over
BELITTLE THEM! this is fun!! ask if they are married, if single do they masturbate,ask are you stupid?
Pretend like you can't hear them! (most of the time this is real)
String them along for DAYS! tell them you want to send them a check and get their mailing address
Tell them your problems HAHAHA..this is FUN!!! call them "Buddy or Friend" just like they do!
I tell them all my friends have passed away, ask if he will be your new friend HAHAHAHA
Remember..you are recording this, post them on Youtube and play them for guests...LAUGH-RIOT!!!

He called left me a voicemail with that same number saying he was with UPS to call them back so I could receive my package.
This is the second something like this has happened. Them P.O.S. Scammers!

Several calls from this number but never leaves a message... Same this as above wanted an address to send me $$$ Gawd I wish it were true... :)

caller wanted an address to send my 200k but didnt know my name

rec'd a call today. I asked the person to stop calling me and to take my number off his calling list. I could barely understand him but what I could understand was alot of profanity.