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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • ggratch.stategov@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • usdclofficer.stategov@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: U.S Department of State <notifier.stategov@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:53:43 +0000
Subject: AMERICAN DV2008 VISA LOTTERY PROGRAM WINNER:CASE NUMBER 2008AES 00023472




Case Number :2008AES00023472 Date:May 15, 2007PA Name: DV2008 WinnerPreference Category: DIVERSITY VISAForeign State Chargeability:DV ELIGIBLE

AMERICAN DV2008 VISA LOTTERY PROGRAM WINNER:CASE NUMBER 2008AES 00023472
Congratulations! You are among those randomly selected and registered for further consideration in the DV-2008 diversity immigrant program for fiscal year 2008. Selection does not guarantee that you will receive a visa because the number of applicants selected is greater than the number of visas available.It is thus imperative that you see to the prompt processing of your file.

This success notification letter on your success in DV2008 as you applied has been sent to you via e-mail owing to failed attempts at getting your response after the normal letter by post was sent.We are assuming that the letter has been lost en transit hence this as the last resort.
Approximately 100,000 individuals were registered for further processing. However there are only between 50,000 & 55,000 diversity visas available under the FISCAL YEAR 2008 DIVERSITY VISA PROGRAM. Therefore, it is most important that you carefully follow these instructions to increase your chances of possible visa issuance.

Please read and follow all the enclosed instructions very carefully, ALL CORRESPONDENCE must be sent to your PROCESSING CORRESPONDENT Mr. Graham Gratch,of the Kentucky Consular Center at this address; ggratch.stategov@yahoo.com.

In this respect, you are required to forward the following information to your Processing Correspondent:

1. Your present contact address (Re-confirm this for record purposes)

2. Your recent passport photograph(And those of the other members of your family.The passport photograph must be taken within the last six months,and must be 35mmsq or 2 inches by 2 inches.Your Processing Correspondent will explain more to you on the passport photograph specifications)

3. Regular Email Address.
You are to further contact the Clearance Officer Mr. Hutton Clements through his e-mail usdclofficer.stategov@yahoo.com, for general clearance requirements,and the payment of the Visa and Clearance/acceptance fee of $1,189.67).Payment is made ONLY through MONEY GRAM.

Please be advised that if all of the above listed documents get to us in time,we will then process your file,and then you would be qualified to be issued your Green Card.You will only be contacted by us when processing is completed. Please do not call us to check when your case will be scheduled.

If it should be necessary to contact the Kentucky Consular Center by telephone YOU MUST ALWAYS REFER TO YOUR CASE NUMBER EXACTLY AS THEY APPEAR ABOVE. Your case number should be clearly written in the upper right hand corner of ALL documents and correspondence sent to the Kentucky Consular Center .

Note:If you do not meet one of these requirements, you are not eligible to be issued a diversity visa. Only you, as the principal applicant, must meet this requirement.Note also that this country's Code of Conduct and Constitution Vol.176/866:Act 690SN guiding all immigration,and Green Card permit Agencies, dictates that 10 days after the dispatch of this e-mail,that all such notified winners who fail to comply to the provisions herein contained,shall lose the opportunity.
Congratulations once more.

Reginald Calwell,Diversity Visa Lottery Coordinator,Bureau of Consular Affairs,U.S Department of State.


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