How To Avoid Green Card Lottery Fraud?
Due to the high level of participation caused to the pandemic situation and crisis all over the world. Scams attempts are also at their highest peak. Scammers target people interested in the US DV lottery. Once you make a search or enter to scammer website they will try to contact you using emails or advertising ads on Google, Facebook, Bing, or any other ads platform. You need to be aware of how to avoid this fraud, we prepare a short video that will inform you about this matter.
What Is A Scam?
By definition, a scam is a quick-profit scheme wherein a person cheats another individual or group out of money by presenting them with false information during a deal or offer.
There are many types of scams that are used to prey on unsuspecting victims. Scammers can approach their victims via email, SMS, and sometimes by calling a personal cell number.
One example of this is the lottery scam. In this scheme, a person receives news via phone call or emails where scammers falsely notify that you have won the lottery and can retrieve a cash prize after submitting a small processing fee. After submitting the fee, the attacker disappears with the money.
What Are Phishing Scams?
Phishing scams usually appear in e-mails containing links to supposedly authentic websites, such as those containing bank or credit card login forms.
These emails usually include authentic bank logos and images to emulate official bank websites and ask the recipient to submit personal or financial information through a link or button.
When clicked, these emails will take you to a fake website in order to steal your information.
Other phishing emails may allow viruses and malware to enter your system to steal information or records stored on your computer.
What Can You Do?
Fortunately, with adequate skills and proper knowledge, you can detect when someone is trying to cheat you, using common scams schemes out using phishing emails.
First, keep your computer up-to-date with good quality anti-virus software.
Don’t share any personal information by phone with anyone you don’t know.
Never use email links to access your bank or any important website, always try to go directly using a bookmark link or writing the URL manually on your internet browser.
How Can I Identify Phishing Emails?
There are many ways to identify fake emails, but we will cover two of the most important.
1. Verify the sender’s email.
For example, if you received an email asking for information from your PayPal account or to enter to a PayPal website, the sender email should be something like communication@paypal.com, never something like paypal@emailx.com or paypal@gmail.com.
The part after the @ (the domain name) should always be checked against the domain of the company’s official website. Better yet, just go to the company’s official website to enter your information and verify your account.
2. Check to see if the URL is mismatched.
Oftentimes the URL (commonly called the “web address”) in a phishing message will appear to be perfectly valid. However, if you move your mouse pointer over the top of the link, you should see the actual hyperlinked address on your browser status bar (down left). If the hyperlinked address is different from the address that is displayed, the message is most probably fraudulent or malicious.
Avoiding Green Card Lottery Fraud
DO NOT Make any additional payments.
If you contract a service like ours, once you have completed your one-time service plan payment, the advisor team should not ask for any additional payment unless you require a service upgrade or a plan renewal.
If you are submitting the application on your own, just don’t pay to anyone, no matter what they said over the phone or by emails, you doing it by yourself, so you don’t own anything to anyone.
In the case where you were selected, then you will have to contact the local US embassy in your country and they will directly inform you about the current fee for resident application, but these fees will be paid to the US embassy, not to any third party.
DO NOT try to submit another DV Lottery entry.
If you pay for our services, we GUARANTEE your entry will be completed by us. The US government disqualifies anyone that applies more than one time and uses a high-tech facial recognition system to verify identity and catch duplicate entries.
DO NOT share your personal information by phone or email.
Reputable organizations don’t ask their customers for personal information via email.
Think twice, if you have a checking account, your bank already knows your account numbers there is no need for a company to call you for more information, if they need to update some info, they will ask you as soon you log in on their websites. (not by email and not by phone)
DO NOT download or click on suspicious attachments.
It would be highly unusual for a legitimate organization to send you an email with an attachment unless it’s a document you’ve requested. As always, if you receive an email that looks in any way suspicious, never click to download the attachment, as it could be malware software made to steal your personal and sensitive information stored in your computer.
WINNERS will be notified through our system.
The US government doesn’t notify DV Lottery winners in any way. Every entry needs to be verified online.
If you contract our services, we will notify the winners through the DV Confirmation section inside of our online system.
If you did it by yourself, you must use your confirmation number to access the Entrant Status Check available on the E-DV website from May to September.
DO NOT click on links provided in a suspicious email.
Log in directly to a website that you are interested in rather than clicking on links provided in any email.
