U.S. Department of State sent this message to Dipkiran Gajmer (gdipkiran@yahoo.com)
Your registered name is included to show this message originated from U.S. Department of State. Congratulations, you’ve won !
Dear xxxxx xxxx ,
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: Saturday 22nd of January 2011 09:52:55 AM
Winner Name: xxxxx xxxx
Country of Birth: Nepal
Is the Diveristy 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 Status Amount (per person)
United States Permanent Resident Card Granted! – Waiting for payment of processing fee 0
Processing fees Included
Total 0
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 accommodation options that you may attach to your visa. These options are not free but are sponsored by the U.S. Government so you may find them convenient as they are cheaper, under market price :
Option #1 : Health Insurance Amount (per person)
Freedom HSA Direct Individual Health insurance for 1 year 0
Option #2 : Dwelling Amount (per apartment)
Apartment in New York, Queens(1 bedroom) for 3 months 0
Option #3 : Guaranteed job Amount (per person)
A 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. 0
Option #4 : Education Amount (per person)
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/ . 0
We remind you that only the visa processing fee (0) is mandatory and the above options are optional so you are not required to pay any of them. However if you don’t pay now once arrived in the United States you need to manage everything by yourself.
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. 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 : James Beatty
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 u.s.a.state.gov@usa.com
b) Email at u.s.a.state.gov@usa.com with the following details
no, you’re being scammed. do not even reply. actually it’s called “advance fee fraud”, they’re asking you to pay some “fees” in advance to get some big sum of money. it does not matter how much you send, of course you won’t get a cent. they’re using WU money transfer because as soon as the money is collected at a WU desk, it’s not traceable anymore.
It’s a scam, a very old one.
Fake, they want you too pay 880$ ? Nah it’s a scam.
America wouldn’t accept sending out green cards to RANDOM winners out in the world. As of 9/11 and as of it being stupid.
Forward the email to Scotland Yard. They will be able to get at least one predator off the street.
100% scam.
While there is a 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 is from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses and contains 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.
How about usafis org ? How about their emails? Is also a scan? They dont ask for money.
Hello curios
Almost all nations I have been to have practically exactly the same regulations to have a visa
Make sure the forms are completed in the correct way check this
Make certain ones own photograph is actually inline with the specs
Submit all of the called for information
Do not lie or present phony paperwork
A SCAM