Herman Emmanuel Fankem

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Herman Emmanuel Fankem (born September 12, 1980) is the main pseudonym used by an unidentified Cameroonian serial fraudster who has refused to identify himself to Canadian authorities since his 2013 arrest for participating in an advance-fee scam. He has been held in immigration custody in the maximum-security Central East Correctional Centre since his arrest and has yet to be identified. He is the longest-serving detainee on immigration charges in Canada. Fankem claims that he is a French citizen visiting from England. He has been uncooperative in attempts to identify him, sometimes threatening and insulting officers, and has refused to be photographed or fingerprinted. He has used at least ten aliases spanning six countries, all linked to past convictions of fraud, falsifying documents, and impersonation. In 2020, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice determined that he was a Cameroonian national, likely born in Douala with the first name "Emmanuel", and ordered his prolonged detention.

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