Green-card spam resembles smuggling opportunity

Amongst the Nigerian financial scams and offers of ways to improve my instrument with Cialis, this bizarre letter arrived the other day. The text is weirdly convincing and not bad English, with its talk of scanning, screening and serial numbers. For a minute I forgot I had never applied for a US visa!

But then look at the wacky list from the bottom called Explanatory Notes, referring to a job with big salary, free housing and ‘feeding’ as well as air ticket. This looks like an add-on by a completely different writer, perhaps one impatient with the foregoing prose. I can only hope it’s enough of a give-away that too many people don’t fall for this. People think ‘trafficking’ is bad, what about fake trafficking?

Embassy of the United States of America

U.S Consulate General
387 Wichayanond Road
Chiang Mai 50300,Thailand

Attn Winner,

Congratulations,you have been selected as one of the lucky winners of the US VISA through our internet email extracting and screening machine,your application was applied and processed by our internet email extracting and screening machine which randomly extracts and scans millions of email adresses across the world.

This Special visa programme is new and was innovated by the US embassy in Kuala lumpur Thailand last year november.The US Consulate in Chiang Mai launched the programme last November 2007,.The aim and objectives of the programme is to give free visas to citizens of developing countries around the world to enable them travel to the US and start a new life and work.The Chiang Mai consulate released 12 visas in this regards and hopes to increase the visa number to 24 by November 2009,you are among the 12 lucky people that won the visa and among the 5 foreigners that won the visa,7 visas were won by Thai nationals.

Your visa winner’s identity is:MM-52047 and your serial net visa passport with us is:JM-102648,your visa type permits you to travel with your family.Your visa duration is 10 years multiple entry to the U.S,it is renewable upon expiration and it permits you to work,study and own properties in the US.

In this respect you are directed to forward the following requirements for the immediate processing of your visa certificate and acknowledgement card:

Please be warned. please contact our claims Office agent with the verification form below:
Overseas Claims Unit African,Asian Pcific Fiduciary Office Agent for Mrs.–

Name: Mrs–
From African,Asian And Pacific Regional Visa Agent
Tel: +23480—,+64336—-35,+9665—1.
–00@gmail.com

1.Write in full your office and residential address.

2.Scanned copies of your recent passport photograph,members of your family passport photograph should be included if you have family members that wants to travel with you.

3.Scanned copies of your/members of your family international passport and i.d card,your family members above the age of 16 requires seperate international passports for travel.

4.Clearance and acceptance fee:U.S$615(Six Hundred and fifteen us dollars)only.This fee should be paid to the below accreditated agents Account Or through Western Union Money transfer.

Providing the above requirements will assure you your visa certificate/acknowledgement card and visa security pin code which we shall scan to your email adress.With the visa certificate/acknowledgement card and pincode we shall send to you,the U.S embassy in your home country or your country of residence will stamp the 10 years multiple entry visa on your/members of your family international passport within 3 working days immediately you present these documents to them because the Chiang mai Cosulate has confirmed your visa,all they will do is to log in to the U.S Immigration network database and key in your visa pincode there they will find your visa winning details.

Important notice:

According to the united states code of conduct in the constitution Vol:189/965:Act 220Sl guiding all immigrations,green cards,visas and permit agencies:if non-response after 31 days you receive this message,your winners status shall reveal no interest and we would in response refer your visa certificate/code and acknowledgement card back to the U.S government/immigrations service center.

We shall be anticipating your reply soon.

Warning:

You have to be very careful to avoid being duped by fake people who will want to use this visa lottery programme to dupe you. You should know that there are a lot of fraudsters on the internet.
If your regional visa agent asks you to pay any other money apart from the acceptance and clearance fee,you should report him to us.
Just adhere strictly to our directives and your greencard visa will be fully processed.

Explanatory Notes

1. Job attracts 8 working hours a day and 6 days a week

2. There will be regular overtime which also will be duly comensated.

3. The basic salary is circa $3,500 a month, excluding free feeding.

4. Living accommodation is also FREEE.

5. Free air travel ticket to U.S

Thanks

Mr.–
U.S Consulate Chiang Mai

N.B:DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL,SEND YOUR REPLY TO THE VISA AGENT,Mrs.–(–00@gmail.com)
Phone: etc etc et c

2 thoughts on “Green-card spam resembles smuggling opportunity

  1. swoplv

    I think this would have been my first clue that it was a scam:

    “This Special visa programme is new and was innovated by the US embassy in Kuala lumpur Thailand last year november.”

    :p

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