i have received an email that you are selected for the us green card through diversity green card visa lottery?

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 the United States postal service by sending paperwork to their home address NEVER via email. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "diversity lottery official" and will contain a list of made-up fees to be paid in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

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.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

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. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake green card lottery", "fraud diversity DV lottery scam", green card Western Union scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

Making a scammer's scam googlable on every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find is a great way to slow that scammer down when a suspicious potential victim goes looking for information, finds your post containing the name the scammer is using, his email address, phone number and the emails themselves and then that potential victim does not become a scam victim because you took the time "get the word out".

Wasting a scammer's time legally and safely is called "scambaiting". If you google that word, you will find sites where you can read scambaits, post up the emails and email addresses of scammers, post up a fake website, read up on how to alert a hosting company that they are hosting a fake website, ask questions and learn all about the hobby of scambaiting.

100% SCAM

DV Lottery winners are NEVER notified by email for any reason, and the UK is not even eligible for the DV lottery. There is NO such thing as an "embassy agent" and that is NOT the address of the US Embassy. Not to mention the US Embassy does NOT accept Western Union payments for any reason - you have to pay in person when you go for your interview

If you did not enter the lottery through https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ in October 2010 then you cannot win the lottery. That is the ONLY official site to enter and winners were notified through the State Department website

The US Embassy in London has an entire page warning people about this scam

http://london.usembassy.gov/immigrant-visas/divers...

"The only official way to apply for the DV lottery is directly through the official U.S. Department of State website during the specified and limited-time registration period.

Notifications to those selected in the random lottery are NOT sent by email or mail. Official notification of selection will be made through Entry Status Check available from May 1, 2011 on the E-DV website at www.dvlottery.state.gov.

Please Note: Should you receive an e-mail notification or a mailed letter about your E-DV selection, be aware that the notification is not legitimate. It is only after you are selected, and respond to the notification instructions made available to you via Entry Status Check, and processing begins on your case, that you may receive follow-up e-mail communication from the Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) informing you to review Entry Status Check for new information about your application. The KCC will not ask you to send money to them by mail or by services such as Western Union. "

DO NOT RESPOND IT IS A SCAM

my uncle he posted a rental on craiglist and the person scammed 2000$ from him from western union

this is mostly and likely as a spam, be very care full the fee seems right since on April this year I paid the fee here in California. I submitted the application with the check and I was allowed to pay with postal money order, cashiers check , or personal check from my account. Do everything possible to investigate if this legitimate call the USCISGOV.COM get telephone numbers and verify with them. Good luck.

If you got any email about DV Lottery, it is a fraud out of Nigeria/Ghana. Do not respond. Do not send money. You are being scammed!

It's a scam you dont get emailed and you don't pay till your approved

Anything the requires fee up front is a scam.

This is the OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.uscis.gov

Winners that are selected will be notified by regular mail, DO NOT, respond to the e-mail, its a scam.

its 100% fake plz dont try it i recive same as to, but my elders say its fake