Is that a scam? I did not send any application for green card lotery but received this. Please advice?
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520
www.dvlottery.state.gov
Dear Winner,
It is my pleasure to congratulate you on your success in the AMERICAN
DV2007 VISA LOTTERY PROGRAM which was applied and processed by our agency. You were selected as one of the lucky winners on our internet screening machine,for the DV2007 USA national visa lottery program. Your visa lottery winner's identity is ID-6200DV and your serial net visa passport with us is SNVPh700IU.In this respect, you are directed to forward the following requirements:
l. Your present contact address (for correspondence)
2. Your recent passport photograph .
3 REGULAR MAIL.
You can also send your photo(s) by regular mail. The photo must be
between 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 and 2 by 2 inches (37-50 mm) square, with the
applicant's,spouse's, or child's name printed on the back.Please mail
the photos to:
Immigration Services:
PA/PL, Rm. 3206
U.S. Department of State
2301 C Street NW Washington, D.C. 20720
Or preferably, you can scan them and send via email for faster processing.Clearance/acceptanc... fees is($989.67).Details of requirements:Your present contact address should be forwarded strictly to our receiving correspondent Mrs. Katherine Tower through her email address ( processingoffice_stategov@yaho... We accept Western Union MoneyTransfer/Money Gram as the ONLY payment method due to some reasons from our past experiences. (Credit card is not acceptable,please.)For information on how to send across the fees,please contact the Clearance Officer Mr.Trevor Blair through his email(cloffice_stategov@yahoo.... Your payment confirmation shall be sent to you as soon as clarification is done on your payment.Providing the above requirements will assure you of getting your Visa Lottery Acknowledgement Card and Visa Lottery Security Code which we shall send to your email address.Important notice: Please make sure you report and forward your Visa Lottery Code and Acknowledgement Card to the USA embassy in your individual country for your Green Card and other necessary claims.According to the United States of America's Code of Conduct and Constitution Vol.176/866:Act690SN guiding all immigration,and Green Card permit Agencies, Non-Response,14 days after you receive this message to your winner's status shall reveal "No interest" and we would in return, refer your lottery code and acknowledgement card back to the USA Government/Immigration Service Center.
We shall be anticipating your reply soon.
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE MORE.
Mrs.Cynthia Brown
Coordinator.
KELVIN POWELL
Executive Director.
Note: Your response/reply should be sent ONLY to the above stated Email network.This is for security reasons.
Answer:
There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:
I can guarantee you that if you listen to these punks you will lose every bit of money you have and never receive any prize money as such a prize does not exist.
Another new popular scam is the lottery scam:
There is no Green Card Lottery, Overseas Lottery International, YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I'm tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever. The Euro Asian whatever you talk about is a perfect example of how you can hand your lifesavings over to some fat-sweaty nigerian con-man (and your i.d. too).
There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.
The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.
By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.
This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.
If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at www.secretservice.gov and www.419eater.com!
If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at www.secretservice.gov
Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren't duped by this scam!
I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!
Another Phishing scam. Dump it and sent them nothing.
As a rule the government is not using YAHOO for a mail server.
Thsi is a scam. They want you to send your personal info so they can steal your identity and your money. DO NOT write back, DO NOT click on any link. JUST DELETE it.
Obvious scam.
since the contact is a yahoo email addy, send this to their abuse department. It's a scam.
Scam
Scam, you don't have to pay for a green card. Scam, scam, scam, just because you maybe from another country, people are trying to take advantage of you. Just watch out with what you are doing.
I would think this may need to be looked into by the government. Isn't against the law to pose as a government official or institute of the government? Copy and print everything in the e-mail and contact your local government office to find out if they need to look into this and who you may need to send it to.
it's a scam. if it was not agents the law to pose as a govt official then everyone would be doing it.
If you ever win something that you didn't apply for, it is probably a scam.
We only want intelligent immigrants
STAY OUT
The e-mail addresses it gives are Yahoo so that´s a dead giveaway that it´s a scam. The US government does not use Yahoo mail and it does not charge for the visa lottery.
It is a scam, delete the email.
Yes, a scam. Poor victims, these scam artist should go to jail.
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