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is this email: dvstate.gov.usa@post.com valid from Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery?
they sent me this :
Congratulations, you've won !
Dear x,
Congratulations ! You are among those randomly selected and registered for further consideration in the diversity immigrant program. Selection guarantees that
you will receive a United States Permanent Resident Card(also known as Green Card or Diversity Visa) only if you follow the instructions for further processing.
Acceptance Date: Thursday 10th of March 2011 02:42:01 AM
Winner Name: xxx
Country of Birth: xxx
Phone Number: xxx
Is the Diversity Visa FREE ?
No. There is a big confusion. Only the participation in the Diversity Visa Lottery was free but the winners must pay the visa processing fees.
The fee is used to process your visa related documents and verify your identity.
Fees:
Type of Residence Card StatusAmount (per person)
United States Permanent Resident CardGranted! - Waiting for payment of processing fee $880
Processing feesIncluded
Total$880
INSTRUCTIONS
Please read and follow all the instructions very carefully. With the Diversity Visa (also known as Green Card) you will enjoy all the advantages and benefits of a US permanent resident, including health and education benefits, and employment opportunities along with guidance in your new country, orientation sessions and programs to integrate into mainstream American society. Once received you can use it at any time you want to move in the United States or just travel. The visa must be renewed after 10 years.
Although you will have all the rights that a U.S. citizen has in the United States, without a relative or friend in the United States you may find the relocation difficult and expensive due the lack of experience in the American society. Therefore the U.S. Government helps you with the accommodation and offers you along with each visa Health Insurance (Freedom HSA Direct Individual Health insurance for 1 year), Dwelling(Apartment in any city you prefer, 1 bedroom for 3 months ), a guaranteed job(in the field that you are are currently qualified so you can start working even from the first week you arrive in the United States and get paid as U.S citizen. ) and education (for U.S. Students or Higher Education through EducationUSA. It includes transfer to a U.S college or Univeristy so you can continue your educational study. More details can be found at http://educationusa.state.gov/ .)
We remind you that only the visa processing fee ($880) is mandatory and the visa is guaranteed upon receiving the payment.
Accompanying family members(wife/husband, fiancee, brothers, sisters, children, cousins) may be included in the program and their visas will be provided at the same time with yours so you can travel/move together in the same time. However the fees must be paid per person and each member(e.g wife, brother, parents, children, cousin) must pay $880. There is no discount for children.
Visa Payment processing instructions
The fees must be paid using Western Union money transfer and will be processed by the U.S. embassy in the United Kingdom.
Western Union is a leading provider of International person-to-person money transfer. With more than 150 years experience and 245,000 Agent locations in over 200 countries and territories, Western Union is recognized for sending money quickly, reliably, and safety.
You can send the payment in U.S. dollars or equivalent of your local currency.
Click on the following link to find the nearest Western Union agency and send the fees payment :
Find Western Union Agency
If you are unable to find a Western Union agency near your location, you may ask a relative or friend to pay the fee on your behalf.
After you find a Western Union agency you need to go with cash money, an identity card(e.g passport or national identity card) and send the payment to the U.S. embassy agent address in United Kingdom:
Name : Marcus Amann
Address: 24 Grosvenor Square
London, W1A 2LQ
United Kingdom
The payment must be sent to the above U.S. embassy agent address in United Kingdom because the U.S. Government decided this based on the diplomatic relations with your country.
After you send the payment follow the next steps :
a) Email copy/scan of the Western Union receipt at dvstate.gov.usa@usa.com
b) Email at dvstate.gov.usa@usa.com with the following details (you can find them on the money transfer receipt):
1) Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN):
2) Exact sender's name on file with Western Union:
3) Exact sender's address on file with Western Union:
4) Exact receiver's name on file with Western Union:
5) Amount sent:
Then wait for the confirmation that the payment was received.
Within 72 hours, you will receive a confirmation via email with your Case Number/Confirmation Number and exact date and time(approx. 2 days) of the final interview. Upon successful interview you will receive your documents and travel informat
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
100% scam.
While there is a USAFIS green card diversity (DV) lottery, that email did NOT come from the US government. The US government uses "dot gov" email addresses NOT "usa.com", NOT "yahoo.com" or anything else. The US government notifies winners via US snail mail by sending paperwork to their home address NEVER via email.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers.
If you google "fake green card lottery", "fraud diversity DV lottery scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.
Source(s): http://scam.com/ http://scamwarners.com/ - KittysueLv 71 decade ago
SCAM
If you check the US Embassy in London's website they have THREE separate warnings about this scam going around so there is no way you can miss it
http://london.usembassy.gov/immigrant-visas/divers...
http://london.usembassy.gov/fraud.html
http://london.usembassy.gov/visanews007.html
"If you have received an email notifying you that your application for the Diversity Visa (DV) Program has been successful and that in order to proceed with your application you are required to send money to a named individual at the U.S. Embassy in London, you are a victim of a scam.
Successful DV applicants are notified by the Department of State, Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) by letter, NOT email and are provided instructions on how to proceed to the next step in the process. The KCC will not ask you to send money to them or to this Embassy or any other U.S. Embassy by mail or by services such as Western Union."
Forward any email you received to the FBIs IC3 division for investigation http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspxhttp://www.ic3.gov/...
- BrookyLv 71 decade ago
No, this is a scam. The DV results are not announced until May and when they are, winners are not notified by email and they do not need to pay for a visa until after their interview and several more steps. See the following fraud warning from the US government:
- steeeeverinoLv 41 decade ago
If it's too good to be true, it usually is. A fool and his money are soon parted.
Be smart. Send no money, and check your results at dvlottery.state.gov on May 1.
Good luck.
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