Green card sweepstakes

I have no idea who would institute a scheme like this, unless it's simply designed as an advertisement by a political action group trying to push for tighter immigration standards.

Lodged in today's spam filter:

Dear Winner.

Congratulation! You are among those selected randomly as one of the lucky winners of the U.S Green Card in DV-2007 diversity immigrant program for fiscal year 2007. Please retain this letter and take it with you to your visa interview when needed.

Approximately 100,000 individuals were selected for further processing; However there are only between 50.000 &.55.000 diversity visas available under the FISCAL YEAR 2007 DIVERSTY VISA PROGRAM. Therefore, it is most important that you carefully follow these instructions to increase your chance of possible visas issuance.

That's not the whole of it, but you get the idea.
They don't ask for money or personal information, though they're very particular that you use the case number that they sent to you to the "Asia pacific consular center."

There's also a Web site listed, but scheme is too lame to warrant any genuine interest on my part.


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