Now that D.V. Lottery is about to be released, some of these scam artists will
intensify their efforts by sending more e-mails and letters particularly to
people in the third world and desperate immigrants in the United States. Please
be informed that there is no fee payment for the DV Lottery. Therefore, any
e-mail asking you to send $440 or any amount for registration or to claim your
winning number is fake. Do not respond to such…
The U.S.
Embassy in London has received thousands of enquiries from people who are
victims of a world-wide scam involving the Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV)
Program, also known as the visa lottery.
The scammers behind these fraudulent emails and letters pose as the U.S.
government in an attempt to extract payment from Diversity Visa
applicants. To avoid becoming a victim
of this scam, please read the following advice from the Embassy.
The U.S.
government never contacts visa lottery winners via the Internet. Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated
techniques that often use the Embassy’s address or name an actual person at the
U.S. Embassy in London as the point of contact.
This would never happen if you really had won the visa lottery. The U.S. Government will NOT ask you to send
money to them or to the Embassy in London or any other U.S. Embassy. Any message that asks you to send money, by
mail or by services such as Western Union, is a scam even if a legitimate
Embassy address is provided.
The only way
to apply for the Diversity Visa Program is through the official U.S. Department
of State website during the specified registration period which takes place
annually in the Fall. If you have never
registered for the program, you will NOT be contacted in regard to this
program, and should find it strange if contacted regarding your winning.
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