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Immigration issue - USAFIS? Is this organization genuine or fake? Anyone who knows about this, please help?

  • I am sort of confused here. I got this email from USAFIS (http://www.usafis.org/), where I have registered for a Green Card (hopelessly). Couple of days back I received a email stating that I've been selected as a winner for Diversity Visa (DV) Program winner for a United States Permanent Resident Card ( Green Card ). This is the body of the email I received. Da: usafis.org [mailto:[email protected]] Inviato: lun 14/02/2011 16:38 A: ( MY NAME ) Oggetto: USAFIS Organization - Diversity Visa (DV) winner Green Card Lottery ( MY NAME ) , You accepted to receive messages from USAFIS Organization on the following date: 2010-01-02T23:06:39.940 We wish to notify you that you have been selected as one of the Diversity Visa (DV) Program winner for receiving a United States Permanent Resident Card. It is also known as the Green Card Lottery. The lottery has been administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants" (DV immigrants). As part of the agreement we will issue A FREE Airline ticket from your country to the USA to claim your Green Card under the American Green Card Lottery Program. The ticket will be sent via post mail at your address registered with us once your visa will be remitted by the U.S department of State. The U.S Department of State will should contact you soon with visa processing information and how to proceed further. If you have any question regarding the visa please wait for the U.S Department of State to contact you as we do not have any competency to discuss further details with you. What should you do now ? Wait for the U.S Department of State to contact you and give you the information about visa processing and how to proceed further . Best regards, Costumer Service Team The USAFIS Organization You accepted to receive messages from USAFIS Organization on the following date: 2010-01-02T23:06:39.940 For reference, your computer IP: 168.187.176.52 was recorded to confirm your registration To no longer receive messages from USAFIS Organization, please click the following link: Click Here OR Send a postal request to: USAFIS Organization 2576 Broadway # 443 New York, NY 10025 U.S.A ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++… So what I would like to know if this is a fake one. As for the line mentioning sending me a free US ticket and all sounds suspicious. I have no real idea what to do, but wait! Does anyone know if such an organization exists? Is there anything called a Diversity Visa (DV) Program?

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    100% scam. While there is a green card DV lottery, that email did NOT come from the US government. The US government uses "dot gov" email addresses NOT "dot usa". The US government notifies winners via US mail by sending paperwork to their home address NOT via email. The US government accepts payment in person at very specific locations NOT cash sent anonymously to someone in another country. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses 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", "DV lottery scam" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

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fake email ..you aint won anything

Uncle

It's a scam! If you have received an email notifying you that your application for the Diversity Visa 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. For those of you who have applied for DV-2012 official notification of selection will be made on line through the Entry Status Check which will be available from May 1, 2011 on the E-DV website at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov Remember, successful DV applicants are notified by the Department of State, Kentucky Consular Center (KCC). No other organization or private company is authorized by the Department of State to notify DV applicants of their winning entry, or the next steps in the processing of applying for their visa. Source(s): http://london.usembassy.gov/fraud.html ..

Gerd P

There is a Diversity Visa but the only way to qualify is to enter in October through http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ -- the ONLY official US government site Unfortunately there are thousands of scam sites that exist only to steal your money and identity So if you didn't enter the lottery through http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ in October 2010, then there is no way you can win

Kittysue

the email is clearly fake. for one thing, the US government runs the lottery program and hasn't selected any winners for DV2011 as of yet. that won't happen until May. there's no such thing as a free airline ticket. the email itself is filled with mistakes. I particular like the fact that this was sent to you by the costumer service department. what are these people, clowns?

George L

Use email trackers to find out who is really sender from email that you have received into your inbox: http://www.ip-address.org/tracker/trace-email.php http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/email-tracking/email-header.php http://www.find-ip-address.org/email-search/find-email.php You need just to copy/paste email header from received email into email tracers above. If IP address is from USA (and you will get ISP and Organization) then is email valid. Otherwise is probably junk. Good luck!

Miha L

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