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Viewing cable 09YAOUNDE841, FRAUD SUMMARY - CAMEROON

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09YAOUNDE841 2009-10-05 15:45 2011-08-30 01:44 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Yaounde
VZCZCXRO1992
RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMA RUEHMR RUEHPA RUEHRN RUEHTRO
DE RUEHYD #0841/01 2781545
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 051545Z OCT 09
FM AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0329
RUEHPNH/NVC PORTSMOUTH 0069
INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE
RUEHFT/AMCONSUL FRANKFURT 0850
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 05 YAOUNDE 000841 
 
DEPT FOR CA/FPP, AF/C and DRL - M Davis 
FRANKFURT FOR REGIONAL CONSULAR OFFICER - S Welborne 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958:  N/A 
TAGS: KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT PHUM ASEC CM
SUBJECT:  FRAUD SUMMARY - CAMEROON 
 
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COUNTRY CONDITIONS 
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1. Cameroon, population 18 million, is a unitary republic dominated 
by a strong presidency and highly entrenched bureaucracy.  The 
primary languages are French and English, with numerous dialects 
amongst its more than 200 tribal and ethnic groups. Embassy Yaounde 
also processes visa applications (immigrant and non-immigrant) for 
the Central African Republic, as well as immigrant visas for Chad 
and Equatorial Guinea. 
 
2. Yaounde is a high fraud post. Fraud and corruption are pervasive 
throughout the country and at all levels of government, even 
extending to official requests for visas, and fraudulent information 
in genuine documents is common.  With widespread poverty and 
frequent claims of political oppression and human rights abuses, 
there is great incentive for Cameroonian citizens to emigrate by any 
possible means. 
 
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NIV FRAUD 
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3. Rampant document fraud has caused Post to disregard almost all 
documentation provided by an NIV applicant other than the visa 
application itself, and to base decisions purely on the visa 
interview. It is therefore rare for NIV fraud to be investigated 
unless Post hopes to uncover a larger trend. Post regularly sees 
instances where a gainfully employed applicant with strong family 
and economic ties to a home in Cameroon applied for a B1/B2 visa 
under false pretenses, only to claim asylum and then subsequently 
bring the family into the US through the inexpensive and relatively 
quick Visas 92 process. 
 
4. NIV fraud among government officials and other influential 
individuals persists. A lack of control over diplomatic notes and 
official/service passports in Cameroon and surrounding countries has 
led to multiple attempts by non-officials or former officials to 
apply for A or G visas fraudulently. This applies doubly to 
applications from the Central African Republic, where Post has 
received on multiple occasions diplomatic visa requests including 
fake mission orders or diplomatic notes. 
5. Post continues to see known, successful travelers re-apply 
alongside lesser qualified travelers in fairly transparent efforts 
to win a visa for someone who would not qualify on their own. Fake 
husband and wife applicants are most common, but local chiefs, 
"Fons", and other traditional rulers are increasingly encountered by 
Post. In the last year post has uncovered several instances of such 
Fons (both real and imposter) attempting to travel with members of 
their entourage-"Nchindas", "Kwifons," and perhaps one of several 
wives. DHS entry and exit records showing the travel history of 
these individuals and their past entourages have been crucial to 
Post uncovering these arrangements at the time of the visa 
interview. 
 
6. Post completed a validation study of Cameroonian B1/B2 visas 
issued from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008 and found that 16% either 
remained in the United States or could not be located in Cameroon 
after multiple attempts by FPU to contact them. 
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IV FRAUD 
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7. Due to the unreliability of genuine public documents and the ease 
of acquiring falsified ones, Post closely scrutinizes every 
family-based IV category, even when documentarily qualified. If the 
interview gives the officer reason to believe the stated 
relationship may not exist, significant additional proof of 
relationship is required and DNA tests are often recommended. 
Sending investigators out to remote civil centers to verify records 
on the spot is also helpful, but has also shown entire civic centers 
to be corrupt, casting additional doubt on the application while 
impeding the ability of Post to separate the truly fraudulent 
applicants from the genuine ones who happened to get their documents 
at a bad center. 
 
8. K visa fraud continues to be a problem. Field investigations of 
relationships remain the primary, and often only, tool to find fraud 
in any case where the interviewing officer believes the relationship 
may be for immigration purposes only. As travel to remote areas is 
difficult and resources are limited, it can take as much as a year 
for such a field investigation to take place. Fraud prevention 
investigators have uncovered several instances where K visa 
beneficiaries were already married with families, where close 
friends and family were not aware of the supposed engagement, and 
where the petitioner and beneficiary were actually related. 
 
 
YAOUNDE 00000841  002 OF 005 
 
 
9. IDENT, CCD reports, and facial recognition are excellent tools 
for confirming both fraud and genuine relationships. Past visa 
applications are often revealed showing different identities, 
undeclared family members, or references to family and fiancs made 
in previous NIV interviews. 
 
10. Post processes very few employment-based cases and therefore 
sees little fraud in this area. 
 
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DV FRAUD 
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11. Post's policy of performing fraud prevention "prescreening" for 
every DV case has succeeded both in detecting instances of fraud in 
the DV program and discouraging future fraud. This review taxes the 
section's resources and impedes our ability to process DV cases. 
Prior to going to an officer for interview, each applicant's 
documentation (including, if necessary, proof of relationship) is 
reviewed by the fraud prevention unit, which makes any relevant 
observations and, if possible, verifies the authenticity of 
qualifying educational documents. Thanks to this, fraudulent cases 
are identified earlier in the process and the applicant can be 
directly confronted with the information. The FPU's involvement also 
allows interviewing officers to have the benefit of the 
investigator's experience during the initial interview. Post has 
noticed a reduction in the attempted use of fraudulent education 
documents in DV applications and attributes this to the real and 
perceived vigilance of the fraud prevention unit in verifying these 
documents. 
 
12. Relationship fraud is a recurring problem every DV season. "Clip 
on" spouses, added after the applicant is notified that they were 
selected in the lottery, are a common occurrence in Yaounde as they 
are in most high fraud DV processing posts. As with other forms of 
relationship fraud, split interviews and, when necessary, field 
investigations of the relationship can often expose fraudulent 
cases. This DV season, Post adopted a strict appointment policy 
where applicants were permitted to reschedule their original 
appointment only once and within 30 days of the original date. While 
this was intended to better manage case workloads, Post has 
anecdotally observed fewer instances of "clip on" spouses while the 
policy was in effect. Locally engaged staff has hypothesized that 
this is due to the amount of time typically required to arrange a 
sham marriage and the relevant documentation and coaching. 
 
13. In the past few months Post has uncovered several DV fraud 
rings, located primarily in the cities of Buea and Bamenda. These 
organizations, based out of local cyber cafs, would assist 
prospective DV applicants (usually youth) and use a single post 
office box for all applicants. After receiving the winner's packet, 
the organization would then request large sums of money for the 
packet or demand that they consent to be paired in a fraudulent 
marriage with a third party. The organization would coach the 
married couple on embassy interviewing methods--lists of questions 
used in past split interviews have been found in applicants' 
files--and corrupted local officials would celebrate the marriage. 
Post has identified certain mailing addresses and marrying officials 
associated with these fraud rings and scans cases during the 
pre-screening process to note their involvement. Local law 
enforcement has been receptive, but to date ineffective. 
 
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ACS AND U.S. PASSPORT FRAUD 
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14. The relatively low ACS load at Post, paired with high levels of 
vigilance by all ACS staff, has led to relatively few instances of 
passport and CRBA fraud at Post. "Bridge" photos showing a child 
growing from the time of last passport issuance to present day are 
asked for in all child passport renewals to prevent substitution, 
and secondary evidence of parentage is always requested given the 
unreliability of local birth certificates. 
 
15. ACS and RSO offices have seen an increase in the already 
significant number of "419"-style email scams directed at American 
citizens through people either coming from, or claiming to come 
from, Cameroon. These have included sophisticated scams relating to 
adoptions, and a medical professional who has defrauded American 
health insurance providers of tens of thousands of dollars through 
fraudulent claims of treating American citizens for a variety of 
serious - but nonexistent - ailments. Local law enforcement, while 
not fully equipped to investigate reports from American citizens, 
has provided full cooperation to Post. 
 
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ADOPTION FRAUD 
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YAOUNDE 00000841  003 OF 005 
 
 
 
16. Fraud in adoption decrees, across all types of consular work, is 
a continuing problem for Post. Informal adoption is common in 
Cameroon, but formal adoption is rare. Though there are partial and 
revocable types of adoptions here, it is far more common for two 
sets of parents to simply come to an arrangement regarding parenting 
responsibilities. As a result, even legitimate members of household 
may not have legal adoption papers and otherwise qualified principal 
applicants or asylum seekers are incentivized to create fake or 
back-dated adoption decrees in support of a family member. The 
majority of adoption decrees evaluated by Post are determined to be 
fraudulent-including virtually all adoption decrees forwarded to our 
office by the Department of Homeland Security for investigation. In 
reaction, Post has adopted a policy of FPU evaluation for any 
adoption decree that is material to any consular case (Visas 92, 
ACS, NIV, or IV). 
 
17. Adoption immigrant visa cases are few, but fraud is relatively 
high. Not only is there a high level of fraud in adoption decrees 
and in identity documents, it is also common for the biological 
parents to be alive and well (and sometimes to have retained some 
level of legal parental authority). American citizens often become 
victims of scams where Cameroonian attorneys (who may or may not 
actually be the person they claim) accept money from Americans for 
children who either do not exist or for real children where the 
biological family has, in fact, retained the ability to revoke the 
adoption without the parent's knowledge. FPU has maintained good 
relationships with many of the courts who handle such decrees, and 
many (though not all) can be sufficiently trusted to provide 
verification of an adoption decree over the phone. In cases where a 
court lacks such credibility, a physical, surprise visit to the 
court is required to check on the spot if the decree exists in their 
archives. 
 
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USE OF DNA TESTING 
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18. Post continues to have only one panel physician after two others 
were de-certified after malfeasance in the DNA/blood sampling 
process. We continue to be confident in the integrity of the current 
process but maintain close observation. 
 
19. Post views DNA testing as a vital tool for deterring fraud and 
for allowing legitimate applicants to quickly establish their 
eligibility, as many legitimate relationships in Cameroon lack 
traditional proof such as convincing photos or intimate knowledge of 
each others' lives. 
 
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ASYLUM AND OTHER DHS BENEFIT FRAUD 
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20. Post continues to be concerned by the number of questionable 
asylum claims made in the US, many of which begin with a 
fraudulently obtained B1/B2 visa for an unrelated and unintended 
purpose, and which lead to large families applying for 
follow-to-join status. As noted in other reporting, while the 
government has occasionally restricted media freedoms, and prison 
conditions are deplorable, Post has not seen credible recent 
evidence of disappearances, torture or repression which fill the 
accounts of most asylum applicants. Indeed, asylum claims are openly 
discussed and are widely misperceived in the eye of Cameroonian 
public as being justified based on holding minority political views 
or due to petty harassment. Visa service vendors openly seek the 
business of Visas 92 applicants outside the Embassy, which is no 
more than a mile from the Presidential Palace, suggesting little 
credible fear of persecution. 
 
21. Like IV processing, most fraud relating to Visas 92 
follow-to-join cases relates to manufactured family relationships. 
Spouses and children often have poor recollection of the petitioning 
family member in the US and little or no proof of relationship to 
substantiate the claim. Even with families who appear legitimate, 
there are often young children (born as late as 8 months after the 
departure of the asylee petitioner parent) added on and adopted 
children whose decrees require verification before completion. 
 
22. Post has observed a growing trend in age fraud, where a true but 
over-age child of an asylee petitioner who is not qualified for 
follow-to-join status falsifies a birth certificate and secondary 
evidence of age (such as baptismal records). They will often eagerly 
participate in a DNA test early on to give the appearance of a 
clearly approvable case and to avoid close scrutiny. IDENT and 
facial recognition have detected age impostors, and Post continues 
to attempt on-site verification of birth certificates and secondary 
proof of age (such as school or church records) in cases where age 
fraud is suspected. 
 
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23. Post reports all lost I-551 cases to DHS. 
 
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ALIEN SMUGGLING, TRAFFICKING, ORGANIZED CRIME, TERRORIST TRAVEL 
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24. Most alien smuggling detected by Post is done through fake DV 
marriages and the NIV process-through fraudulent diplomatic notes, 
substitutions in performance groups, or the simple attempted 
sponsorship of a well-regarded authority for a string of applicants. 
Post's strict enforcement of the worldwide referral policy, along 
with the constant reinforcement to applicants that they alone must 
demonstrate their own eligibility for visas has been the best 
solution so far to addressing this issue. While drug smuggling and 
other criminal activities certainly exist, we believe Europe to be 
the main destination, and are without significant information about 
such travelers. Immigration authorities are widely perceived to be 
easily corrupted, and airlines report that police routinely escort 
malafide travelers through customs. Post would welcome training or 
intelligence identifying regional patterns of illicit travel. 
 
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DS CRIMINAL FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS 
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25. Consular and RSO sections at Post enjoy high levels of 
cooperation. RSO regularly investigates asylum claims (when 
requested to do so by the Department of Homeland Security), assists 
American victims of email scams, and when necessary assists in the 
apprehension of impostors and those providing fraudulent official 
documentation in the consular section. Through facial recognition, 
our section discovered that a contractor in a sensitive position in 
the Embassy had engaged in visa fraud. Post removed the employee 
based on our report. 
 
26. The vast majority of cases involving both consular and RSO 
sections are collaborative in nature, and most visa investigations 
end with the applicant being arrested and investigated by local 
authorities. It is rare, however, for the arrested applicant to be 
held for long or for formal charges to be filed. 
 
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HOST COUNTRY PASSPORT, IDENTITY DOCUMENTS, AND CIVIL REGISTRY 
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27. A lack of reliable primary documentation continues to be the 
biggest challenge for Post's fraud prevention efforts. Both 
fraudulent documents and genuine documents containing fraudulent 
information are commonly used throughout the country for a variety 
of purposes, and are easily obtained by applicants of all levels of 
wealth and stature. Birth certificates, death certificates, and 
marriage certificates are often created many years after the event 
and only reflect the attestation of those who say they were 
involved. These breeder documents are then used to create national 
IDs and passports containing whatever information the individual 
claims. Corrupt document issuing centers will not only create any 
new document desired, but maintain a selection of old, blank forms 
that have been pre-signed and stamped by the issuing authority at 
that time, available to anyone for a fee. This allows individuals to 
receive a genuine, aged document that will pass virtually any 
authentication effort. "Special Centers" - small issuing authorities 
located in remote areas and receiving little if any supervision - 
are particularly prone to corruption and any document issued from 
one should be considered highly suspect. 
 
28. New Cameroonian passports feature a machine readable zone and 
photodigitized data page, but a lack of managerial control and easy 
access to fraudulent source documents make the information within 
untrustworthy. A Cameroonian journalist bribed an immigration 
official with USD 400 to get a passport in a fraudulent identity in 
just 24 hours. 
 
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COOPERATION WITH HOST GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES 
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29.  Corruption at all levels of governance creates a challenge for 
Post fraud prevention and local cooperation is uneven. Attempts to 
verify documents via phone or fax are not reliable, as answering 
civil employees are often complicit.  Only visual, unannounced, 
on-the-spot inspections of civil records have proven effective, and 
even then can often be inconclusive if the physical records are 
poorly kept or expertly falsified. Fraud investigators have 
encountered increasing number of civil centers refusing access to 
their records, in contravention to Cameroonian civil status codes. 
The Cameroonian Ministry of Territorial Administration and 
Decentralization has pledged to assist Post with obtaining the 
 
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cooperation of these centers. 
 
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AREAS OF PARTICULAR CONCERN 
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30. None 
 
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STAFFING AND TRAINING 
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31. The Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) consists of one American Fraud 
Prevention Manager and two LES Fraud Investigators.  The Fraud 
Prevention Manager is also Deputy Section Chief and head of the 
Immigrant Visa Unit. All three have taken the relevant FSI fraud 
prevention courses and online training as available. Post continues 
to request an ARSO-I in order to increase investigatory capability 
in the fraud prevention unit and allow for more timely resolution of 
cases. 
 
PETERSON