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November 20, 2005
Green card scams on the Internet
Posted by Dominic Basulto
If you're desperate to win a chance at a green card as part of the upcoming "Green Card Lottery," the New York Daily News has a warning for you - don't believe everything you see or hear. Scams are proliferating all over the Internet to draw in the unwary and naive:
"Immigration scams linked to the approaching December 4 deadline for green card lottery applications are flooding the Internet. The sites are charging from $30 to $500 to help fill out the electronic entry forms, work that actually takes less than a minute. 'People are desperate to get the cards, grabbing at anything, paying anything, and others are preying on that desperation... It's a lottery and nobody can help you win.'"
Oh - and if you're from Mexico, Canada, China or the Dominican Republic, fuh-get about it... Citizens from those countries are excluded from participating in this year's Green Card lottery.
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