Diversity Lottery (Green Card Lottery) Fraud
If you have received an Email notifying you that your application for the Diversity Visa (DV) 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, 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 online through the Entry Status Check which will be available from May 1, 2011 on the E-DV website at 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: U.S. Department of State
