The Lottery Fraud , breaking the rules Every year, over 8 million people play the INS lottery. The players are required to follow the detailed form instructions, and there is little room for frauds in this case.
Intermediaries emerge, trying to help applicants and, sometimes, themselves.
To bring action against other companies is harder as their techniques become subtler. Russian companies, for example, use the Cyrillic alphabet as a way of increasing the chances of winning. In other regions, the suspected rate of fraud for specific types of applications is closer to 90 percent. The first green card was printed in white paper. It didn t make any difference between legal and illegal alien residents.