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Against the backdrop of the activities of some scrupulous element, the Federal Government has warned prospective applicants for the MSME survival fund to be wary of fraudulent websites and desist from having dealings with them.
The government gave the warning in a statement made available to journalists in Calabar, Cross River State, by the project delivery office (the coordinating office of the scheme) under the federal ministry of industry, trade and investment, and titled “portal requesting for beneficiaries account details to get 50, 000 not known to us”.
The project delivery office is coordinated by Tola Johnson, the SA to the President on MSMEs, Office of the Vice President.
The release stated that “Our attention has been drawn to the activities of fraudsters parading themselves as operators of the Federal Government’s Survival Fund Scheme.
“The syndicate operating a fraudulent portal with the link https:// survivalfund-gov-ng.freefunds. xyz/#1609249530133(https:// bit.ly/fg-survival-fund) are asking unsuspecting members of the public to check their eligibility for the scheme by providing their account details on the portal in order to be paid N50, 000 grant under the Survival Fund Scheme.
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“It is pertinent to note that the project delivery office (the coordinating office of the scheme) does not operate any such portal and beneficiaries do not require to go to the website to verify their eligibility for the federal government’s Survival Fund as indicated on the fraudulent portal.
“The website requesting beneficiaries account details is, therefore, a scam. The PDO does not operate any such portal and wishes to advise all Nigerians and beneficiaries of the different tracks of the survival fund to be wary and desist from having dealings with the operators of the site”, the statement read.
It maintained that the authentic survival fund portal remains www.survivalfund. gov. ng. and as customary with the PDO, members of the public will be informed about updates on the scheme whenever it is necessary.
The MSME Survival Fund is part of the 2.3 trillion naira stimulus package of the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan and aims at boosting the capacity of MSMEs to remain in business.
