A new Scam targeting Southern Cameroonian Diasporeans which everybody needs to be aware of (WATCH VIDEO)
Over the past two yrs, some Cameroonian political analyst have been alleging that one of the reasons why the Anglophone problem has not been solved, is because there are certain individuals who are profiteering from the Anglophone crisis and (as such) don’t want president Biya to provide a lasting solution to the Anglophone crisis as this will put an end to their scheme.
However almost every Southern Cameroonian gave the political analyst a deaf ear, as many found it difficult to embrace the idea that a certain group of people could be profiteering from a crisis which has taken more than 3000 lives and displaced thousands of people; who are now living in precarious conditions as refugees in Nigeria and as IDPs in other parts of the country.
Nevertheless a recent scam now trending in Southern Cameroon has caused many Cameroonians to embraced the bitter reality.
Indeed! the Anglophone crisis has become a gold mine to certain heartless individuals in Southern Cameroon.
The most glaring evidence, is the recent scam targeting Southern Cameroonians in the diaspora.
Over the past few days, we have received messages from 6 Cameroonians in the diaspora; who had contacted us to inquire if their name has been added to Cameroon’s list of wanted Amba sponsors in the diaspora.
After listening to their stories and carrying out investigation, i decided to put pen to paper, in order to Educate Cameroonians about this recent scam which has been used by many scammers to rip off millions of frs CFA from hundreds of Southern Cameroonians in the diaspora. Your relations in the diaspora could be the next!.
If you have any relation in the diaspora, you need to be on a look out for this type of scam.
The scam goes as follows…
A person (male or female) will come to you to present to you a list of names which includes the name of your friend, brother, sister, mother or any relation residing in the diaspora) and alleged that his or her name has been blacklisted by Cameroon’s government because he or she is sponsoring the Amba boys in Cameroon…and as such, he or she cannot come to Cameroon because he/she will be arrested at the airport.
The person (often an accomplice of the scammers) will later tell you to inform your relation in the diaspora about the issue and also give you a phone number of a person who can remove the name of your relation from the blacklist.
If your relation in the diaspora call the phone number, he will be asked to pay at least 5 millions frs for his name to be removed from La republic blacklist.
Their targets are mostly Southern Cameroonian diasporeans who frequently come to Cameroon to attend to their businesses.
Their victims; who are very aware of the treatment which are being given to “Amba suspects” by forces of law and order, have no choice but to pay the huge sums of money demanded by the scammers, for their name to be removed from the alleged blacklist (even if they are innocent).
It may surprise you to know that this clever scam is being perpetrated by top ranking officials and politicians; who have succeeded to carve out a niche for themselves from the Anglophone crisis.
In 2019, a Cameroonian politician and actor by name; Gelam Dickson, popularly known as Colonel or the Godfather of Cameroon entertainment industry, was caught red handed trying to rip off more than 1 million frs CFA from a Southern Cameroonian diasporean using scamming technique mentioned above.
In June, 2019, Southern Cameroonian investigative reporter based in Houston Texas by name Theodore Ngumba (during a live Facebook show) reported that Mr Gelam Dickson is a government spy who has been feeding fat from the Anglophone crisis in complicity with top military officials… and provided shocking evidence to back up his allegation.
During the Live Facebook show, Mr Theodore Ngumba played a recorded phone conversation between Mr Gelam Disckson and a guy; who had links to one of his victim in the diaspora.
In the phone conversation, Mr Gelam Disckson could be heard trying to convince the guy to persuade his friend in the diaspora to pay a huge sum of money for his name to be removed from Cameroon blacklist and threatenned that if the victim doesn’t pay the sum of $2000, he will make sure that he doesn’t come to Cameroon adding that he is in control of Cameroon. Little did he know that his conversation was being recorded.
To cut a long story short, when Mr Theodore Ngumba reached out to Mr Gelam Disckson to question him about his scamming activities, he refused that he didn’t demanded for money from any diasporeans.
Mr Gelam Disckson (who is also The former owner of Hotel residence Carlos in Muea, Buea has in a live video on his Facebook page said he is innocent.
Click on the link below to watch video of report published by Theodore Ngumba…
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