Is USDV.US a scam website?

[Middleton]

I came on a website call http://www.usdv.us a few week ago, and it looked really legit to me about DV Lottery service. So, I decided to apply through that site without knowing that there is an official government site for this lottery. First, I applied for 1 year application which cost me $20 and on the same day at night, I received a phone call from its customer service asking me my personal information. Because it sounded too legit to me, I ended gave all my personal information with photos to that person.
Then, he told me that because I had a master degree and 2 years of working experiences, I would have high possible chance in winning the DV lottery. After that, he said he will charged me another $279 for finding houses, and career for me. At that time, I thought, they will charge me that price unless I won the lottery, but on the same day right after the phone call, they charged me $279 without my permission. The next day, because of suspect of Fraud, I call that guy to cancel all my application and he said my application had already submitted to US government (2013 May). Therefore, he said I could not cancel my application now. At that time, I was so sure that this person is scam because the application period will be during October - November.

The next day, I called my bank agent to cancel the transaction on my creditcard to that website. After a few days, I received a phone call from the same person threatening me to approve the transaction back. He said he will sue me for $50,000 if I don't do it.

Please give me suggestion about this problem. Thank you everyone!

[Wayne Z]

Looks like a scam.

The site is a private site and has nothing to do with the US Government.

They are only after your money.

[Ed Atun]

Keep working with the credit card company to get this reversed. The site opened June, 2012. Too new to be trusting them with your money. They have a Yahoo email address. You can open and close one of those in 2 minutes.

Their actions (charging you the $279 after lying to you) sends the message that they exist only to get upfront money from you.

I went thru 2 pages of search engine results without finding any information about this company or website. No one knows anything about them.