ndisnoopi:

hello it is false please dnt make any payment. I av a chance of knowing this people dey send fake visa lottery 2 people please dnt pay a dime moreover schools or organization dnt pay tru graph card hey pay tru embasies. bye.

carloshodi:

Dear All,

I saw this Thread on the Internet, and I thought to myself, why effective correspondence had not been affected all these while. I called Amouse Diop, The President of USSAFRICA Team, and queried/protested the matter. After due diligence, I promised the Body to answer several questions brought before it by sharing my own experience with all, It is a good thing that you have all brought these very crucial fears onboard, this of course will allow USSAFRICA.ORG meet to the ethical issues students are confronted with. As a beneficiary of the Scholarship, I think I should say one or two experience, and if you are not convinced, I would strongly advised that you have someone in the USA contact them in their Office.

This is not some Scam or Game. It is serious Business! The Model was fashioned by great minds that invented the Idea in the first place. They thought helping Africans achieving their too many dreams should be done in order to place Africa amongst the 20th Economy in 2020, with her Human and Natural resources. It is an Avenue to Trained Africans in diverse field of education to face the challenges ahead of us.

More ways you can find out is visit some of the website of the schools and colleges where awards are utilized, through their admission office; some of the matters can be addressed. You can also contact the USIS or the US Consulate to petition about this matters, that if you have been scammed by them, just beyond all reasonable doubt I would like ndisnoopi[/i] to tell us how the USSAFRICA are scammers and fraudsters in your petitions and claims.

In 2004 I had these same fears, and I waited till 2004 before I was convinced, that is after my family in the New York has gone up there in their Office to make every necessary enquiries. Then it was $32.50cents. I was scared of making any payments, worst still there was no medium of sending the payments to them. I then had to make final arrangement with my Uncle in DC, and my Aunt in IL - Chi-town precisely, and the payment was sent.

My Heart nearly entered my mouth when I didn't hear from them, i.e. after payments, documentations and all necessary paper work has been received by them. For 8 months I didn't hear a word from them, boy I almost died of thoughts. Thinking I have been dubbed and scammed of my money, in the interim, on 5th, July 2004, I received a package that was bookmarked "Scholarship Award". My Nephew called me where I was doing my NYSC, I just got a phone then, that I received a package, I was Leary and told her it wasn't mine. But she insisted, well I had to give in, and I called my Uncle and Aunty in DC and Chicago if they sent anything. I even had to call up Uncle Wale Oshodi, My Uncle in Lexington on whether he sent anything; he declined it. However, it took some time, at least like 3 months, when we passed out from our NYSC, 18th November of 2004. I went home, and to my greatest surprise, it was USSAFRICA bookmarked "2004/5 Scholarship Award". Inside the envelop 'FedEx' precisely was several paperwork, amongst which includes:-

1. F1-20
2. Certificate of Award
3. Admission Packet of University of Kentucky - Undergraduate, such as Admission Letter, Brochures, Campus Map, and Hostel payment slips and other stuffs
4. Another Envelop containing Interview Reservation, and USIS payment slip
5. Reserved Student ID No.
6. Bank Statement clipped with Another Certificates of Awards from Negro Trust Fund
7. FIB-CIA certification Benchmark of USSAFRICA.

When I received this, I had to spend some few nairas, I think then it was N7, 500 through FedEx, I sent everything to my Aunt Oluwakemi Adekunle (Nee Oshodi-Tapa) in NY. She received it, and went ahead to contact the IRS, FIB, CIA and Homeland Security on the Authenticity of the Award. After due findings, my Aunt called me to inform me that the Award was Genuine, and that I was very lucky.

I made every preparation, and did all necessary test, "yellow Fever, Polio and other cardiac’s test plus AIDS/HIV". I booked for the Visa Interview and on the interview dates, I was actually nervous and holy me, I was freezed. I went up to Counter "4", got cleared, and I was told to wait, I waited, and I was ushered in to Counter "7", the inner room - that is, if any of you have been to the American Embassy. I met Sara Clifordson (Now very close and experiencing mutual friendship), she asked me several questions, where I maintained I was still undergraduates, and she proofread through my documents, scanned through and said to me, how did I heard of the USSAFRICA, (2), What are my reasons for going to the USA to Study with the acclaimed scholarship award. (3) What convinced the Scholarship Foundation to shortlist my name for the United Negro Trust Fund, which was explained in my ESSAY I sent to them when I was submitting my Requirements during the Application process.
"[i]Although every student is given the avenue to doubt, because without this, it is too good to be true, which is the psychology behind the events" as quoted by Nuobusira Akuame from Uganda (A fellow Recipient) in Spring 2005 when we were called for approval in NY.

My Advice to the second Speaker is that, you don't know these people. It is true that there are so many scammers out there. This was the reason why the USSAFRICA was done in secrecy in 2000-03, when it was only given to family members and was done free. But those beneficiary don't even know what they were doing, misusing the opportunities, that are open to Meticulous and Intelligent Students across Africa.

If you want to confirm about me or how I have benefit from them, you can also contact the Homeland security in the US, the FIB and CIA. Because I won't want to drag my family's name in the mud. I have my reputation to protect, and the USSAFRICA has also been a source of contribution to this integrity in the past and present, they have shaped my thoughts, and have educated me on how the global environment works. The USSAFRICA have been responsible in sponsoring some events I have attended, such as Peace and Conflict Resolution in The UN, as an Ambassador to Africa. We have Adewale Oluokun in TEXAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. You can log on to this school’s website and see how this young man performs. He was a Beneficiary of USSAFRICA scholarship. I wonder why people will see their fingers inactive to tap buttons with incoherent words to assassinate Organization characters such as USSAFRICA. You don't have an Idea of what you are saying ndisnoopi and I advise you do your findings well. If paying the $100.00 cent that is your problem, as you coined it "Hard earned Money", you can have your people check the organization out with whatever source you want to use, before drawing irrational and misplaced conclusions, this is a whole bulk of misrepresentation.

Contact these schools and make your findings, if I have not said so already in one of the paragraph:

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
TEXAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Lubbock, Texas
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, Fayetteville, Arkansas
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, Oxford, Ohio
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Honolulu, Hawaii
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, Albuquerque, New Mexico
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, Las Vegas, Nevada
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Ann Arbor, Michigan
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. College park, Maryland
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, Lexington, Kentucky
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington D.C.
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Houston, Texas

I think I m done here.

PRINCEDICK: United state Scholarship;i have meet up with all the requirement for 2008/09 session but after making payment of $750 to redeemed my chance for undergraduate  for this program and acknowledgement of payment receipt sent to me on july'09 no message from USSAFRICA.ORG TEAM again up till today.All my enquiries felt off