A friend of mine searching for the green card lottery site (a free site by the US government) by mistake came across USAFIS.org and added personal details (not credit card) including a phone number. She then on a daily basis received threating calls from this company saying that if she didn't give them her credit card details and paid them money for a green card application, they would make sure that she never would be able to enter the US and never be able to win a green card. We are going to file a complaint with the US Gov. internet scam div.
This is the worst type of company out there and anyone should be very careful in providing ANY type of information to them (including phone numbers and e-mails). BE AWARE!
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I have been an idiot, beliving that all websites ending with ' . org ' were official sites from the American government, so I left my name and phonenumber to 'usafis.org' and got some days later a telefhone call from ' usafis ' telling me that I had won the lottery. They needed som information included my Visa-card number to charge me € 799, but then I would get back $ 1.000 when leaving to the USA. The next morning i regretted and wrote to them, but the money had disappered from my account. No connections to 'usafis' later has led to anything but phonecalls from them. They don't want to write e-mais which I asked for.
And it is quite clear that there will be no refund.
Being such a fool I don't want to make more fuzz about this but only warn people to stay clear USAFIS in any relationship.
They did call me to and told me that i have won the lottery.. So they told me to send me papers for the embacy.. But first i had to pay 500euro to send me the papers... And I recieved a cdrom "learn a language" I feel terrible.. They stole my money! You can by this stupid cdrom for 5 euro where are my other 495 euros!?.. Thiefs!
my brother did fill his information in sept09, then he got call from some f... guy telling him they will help him in australlia immigration and asked to pay some 560 euroes to process his application.then he used my cc to pay them .then next day he phoned them to ask someting and been told by a lady that it(payment )was for solicitor checking his papers etc., which my brother said he will get it done from uk not more than 100 pounds so please i dnt want to proceed, just refund my money coz i was told by guy that it is processing fee not solicitor fee.she said my manager will call you tomarrow about refund.then next day one f... lady foned who cant even speak english herself said its the 4 cds and one grammer book you have paid for and it is not refundable.i am really very upset about this f... ripoff fee like killing that bi...im sorry about these words i think you can understand how angry and pissed off i am.this is my hard earned money .dnt know what to do now, but suggest everybody to stay away from these sites and if you find those [censor] by anychance just ...them
Important Notice
No fee is charged for the electronic lottery entry in the annual DV program. The U.S. Government employs no outside consultants or private services to operate the DV program. Any intermediaries or others who offer assistance to prepare DV entries do so without the authority or consent of the U.S. Government. Use of any outside intermediary or assistance to prepare a DV entry is entirely at the entrant’s discretion.
The Department of State strongly encourages applicants to complete the application without the assistance of “Visa Consultants, ” “Visa Agents, ” or other individuals who offer to submit an application on behalf of applicants. In many cases, these facilitators substitute their address for an applicant’s address and thereby receive the selection notification instead of it being received by the actual applicant. Subsequently, the visa facilitators extort money from the selectees in order to receive the notification information that should rightly have gone directly to the DV selectee.
Well saying they made threatening calls is wrong. They must have tried to insist you like any other tele callers. But being a professional company it is not possible that company can really afford to deal in such a manner. This can affect their market. I don't believe it... you can register your complaint, send them a mail stating all the grievances you have. Also, there are some forge calls being made on the name of USAFIS just to malign their name.
Patrick
Where there is smoke there must be a fire! I have read through countless complaints and must agree there must be something wrong with USAFIS or they dont know how to satify their "customers" (actually the people they are legally allowed by the US government to rip off). If there are so many satisfied people who have used the services of USAFIS then they are mighty quiet about it - I wonder if they are just to embarassed to admit that they were ripped-off by professional e- and tele-scammers!
I can't believe it, no professional firm can afford to do that. USAFIS has helped one of my friend's family in processing their Green Card and they were lucky to have their name in the lottery. Today, all the family members are in USA. Regarding your problem, it seems like you are more interested in maligning the face of a reputed firm. No one can force you to pay. If at all it is happening with you, complain to the higher authorities of USAFIS, I am sure no professional company can let these things happen for long.
You seem to be a USAFIS runner. Aren't you?
We do not make threatening calls to any of the clients and we do can not and do not claim that we can prevent someone from entering the US now or in the future, We do call people that have register in our site and didn’t finish their application to see if we can help them finish it.
If you want, you can send her details to my personal email and I will make sure she is removed from our data base and she will not get any more emails or phone calls from us.
Danna Smith
SEO and PR
Usafis.org
danas@usafis-mail.com