Un Camerounais fait face a la déportation pour arnaque au Canada

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Le mardi 15 avril 2008

ACCUSÉ DE TENTATIVE DE FRAUDE, Un Tunisien devrait être renvoyé chez lui

Régis Bouchard

Le séjour au pays de Jean Chrisostome Onana Awono pourrait bien se terminer au cours des prochains jours, pour ne pas dire demain.

Accusé de tentative de fraude, M. Onana Awono qui était au pays en vertu d'un visa pour poursuivre des études, sera, s'il n'en tient qu'aux autorités canadiennes, passager sur un avion en partance pour la Tunisie, son pays d'origine.

Rappelons que l'individu de 27 ans a été arrêté la semaine dernière à la suite d'une histoire rocambolesque qui tient davantage du poisson d'avril que de la réalité mais qui s'est effectivement passée.

Pendant quelques jours, l'accusé a tenté de convaincre un propriétaire de rôtisserie de Gatineau où il avait déjà travaillé, d'investir 50 000 $ dans l'achat de produits chimiques servant au nettoyage de billets de banque altérés par des impuretés, des saletés de toutes sortes.

M. Onana Awono avait d'ailleurs en sa possession des pièces de papier ayant la forme de billets de banque qu'il transportait dans du papier d'aluminium.

L'accusé a expliqué au futur investisseur que les produits chimiques nécessaires au blanchiment de l'argent souillé étaient extrêmement dispendieux et qu'il lui fallait donc en acheter en grande quantité pour nettoyer le million de $ dont il venait d'hériter.

Le fraudeur promettait évidemment à son interlocuteur un retour plus qu'appréciable sur son investissement. L'accusé a même poussé l'audace jusqu'à orchestrer une démonstration alors que sous l'effet des produits, un billet tout noir a repris l'apparence d'un billet de 20 $.

Flairant l'arnaque, le propriétaire de la rôtisserie a fait espérer l'accusé quelque temps avant d'appeler les policiers qui ont procédé à son arrestation, après avoir organisé, avec la complicité de la victime, une rencontre formelle où l'accusé a été piégé.

Jean Chrisostome Onana Awono étant illégalement au pays, les autorités de l'immigration canadienne l'ont cueilli dès sa remise en liberté. L'individu de 27 ans devrait quitter le pays au cours des prochains jours.
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Un fraudeur déporté?
2008-04-15 08:58:00

(CJRC) - L'homme qui a tenté de frauder le propriétaire d'une rôtisserie de Gatineau devrait quitter le pays au cours des prochaines heures.

Le gouvernement canadien aimerait bien voir Jean-Chrisostome Onana Awono prendre un aller simple en direction de la Tunisie aujourd'hui.

Il était au Canada grâce à un visa pour poursuivre des études, mais il préférait l'argent aux livres, ce qui l'a mené à essayer de soutirer environ 50 000 $ à Michel Brassard des Rôtisseries Fusée.

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Et pourtant cet étudiant semblait avoir un avenir prometteur (PDF)




Dans certain pays, les arnaqueurs paient pour leurs crimes.

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Ce genre d'arnaque est surnommé La Fraude de la Monnaie Noircie = Wash-wash scam

Les détails de cette fraude sont affichés au lien suivant: http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/...ead.php?t=2447

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Déporté dans le mauvais pays!
2008-04-17 09:03:00

(CJRC) - Le gouvernement canadien est passé bien près de commettre une énorme gaffe cette semaine.

Les autorités s'apprêtaient à déporter un homme soupçonné de fraude, Jean-Chrisostome Onana Awono, en Tunisie alors qu'il est en fait un Camerounais.

C'est un lecteur éveillé du journal Le Droit et le personnel de l'ambassade de Tunisie qui ont empêché le Canada de se tromper.

Il semble que les gouvernements s'étaient basés sur les informations qu'a données le supposé fraudeur lors de son arrestation.

Onana Awono a été arrêté après qu'il ait tenté de soutirer la somme de 50 000 $ à Michel Brassard des Rôtisseries Fusée.

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Un détenu camerounais pris pour un Tunisien

N'eut été d'un des lecteurs du Droit et du personnel de l'ambassade de Tunisie à Ottawa, Jean Chrisostome Onama Awono aurait pu été déporté dans le mauvais pays.

[Ottawa - Canada] - 18-04-2008 (Le Droit)

C'est la conclusion que l'on peut tirer alors qu'aussi bien au Bureau des procureurs de la Couronne à Gatineau que des autorités de l'immigration canadienne, les informations initiales que l'on possédait sur l'accusé de 27 ans étaient à l'effet qu'il était originaire de la Tunisie.

Jean Chrisostome Onama Awana a été arrêté puis accusé de tentative de fraude après avoir tenté d'obtenir une somme de 50 000 $ de la part du propriétaire de la Rôtisserie Fusée de Gatineau.

L'accusé disait avoir besoin de cet argent pour acheter des produits chimiques onéreux servant au nettoyage de billets de banque (il disait en avoir pour un million $) souillés par une substance noirâtre.

Les informations initiales concernant le statut de M. Onama Awono précisaient que l'individu était originaire de la Tunisie et se trouvait au Canada en vertu d'un visa d'étudiant. Il appert que l'accusé aurait lui-même donné ces informations au moment de son arrestation.

La parution dans LeDroit des informations relatives à M. Onama Awono a incité un lecteur à nous faire parvenir des renseignements sur l'individu, notamment le fait que celui-ci était un artiste connu originaire du Cameroun.

Un porte-parole de l'ambassade de la Tunisie à Ottawa a aussi communiqué avec le journaliste du Droit pour indiquer que l'accusé n'était pas un citoyen tunisien en nous confirmant qu'il était plutôt camerounais d'origine.

Sur un site Internet portant sur l'individu, la photographie de l'accusé apparaît avec la mention qu'il est conteur-musicien, chanteur et danseur et qu'il offre ses services pour donner des spectacles à des étudiants de niveaux maternelle à 6e année au tarif de 240 $ plus TPS pour 45 minutes ou encore 310 $ plus TPS pour deux spectacles au même endroit.

Jean Chrisostome Onana Awono doit comparaître devant un juge de l'immigration au cours des prochains jours puisque les autorités canadiennes demandent son extradition vers le Cameroun et non la Tunisie.


Source de l'article - © 2008 Le Droit

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To summarize, Jean Chrisostome Onana Awono was arrested in the Ottawa area (Gatineau) in April 2008 for attempting a black money scam on a Gatineau businessman. He stated to the authorities that he was Senegalese. They found out he was really Cameroonian and was supposed to be deported but from what I know of the Canadian justice system, he likely manage to use every loophole to remain in Canada. If that's the case, then Canadian citizens are the ones paying the price by being victimized by this professional criminal.

The following will be in both languages as it's a followup of sort.

Black money scam is rare in Canada and Onana is not a common name according to the Ottawa-Gatineau online phone directory, yet there has been recurrence of that fraud and the one arrested was also named Onana. I don't believe in this type of double coincidence.

Une mise a jours en quelques sortes. Les fraudes de la Monnaie Noircie = Wash-wash scam sont très rare au Canada, et le nom Onana est également rare a en juger par les annuaires en lignes de Ottawa-Gatineau, et malgré cela, il y a eu d'autres cas d'arnaque de ce genre et le coupable étais également nommé Onana. Je ne crois pas en ce genre de double coincidence.

Cinq mois avant l'incident de Gatineau, il y a eu une tentative de cette même arnaque et les responsables sous arrêts utilisaient les noms Victor et Vincent Onana. Une autre double coïncidence...j'en doute.

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Five months prior to the Gatineau scam attempt, there was an attempt of the very same fraud reported in Ottawa and the culprits arrested used the names Victor and Vincent Onana. Another double coincidence...very unlikely. Here's an exert:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/...d-c32ace748741

Ottawa pair's money scam comes out in the wash

Ottawa Citizen November 23, 2007

It's a song-and-dance familiar to anyone with an e-mail inbox: A jailed Cameroon general, millions in embezzled dollars and a plea for help in exchange for a cut of the money.

In most cases, the scam can be dismissed with a swift click of a mouse, but this week, the virtual scam became reality for one Ottawa man who told police he was asked to help with some literal money laundering.

Last Friday, Vincent and Victor Onana walked into a Lowertown business and approached the clerk with a business proposition, according to Ottawa police organized fraud section Det. Bob Arbour.

"They explained that their father was a general in the Cameroon army and that he was arrested for embezzlement, but not before his two sons had the money transported to Canada," Det. Arbour said.

The clerk told police the two 29-year-olds said the money had to be dyed black so that it could be smuggled out of Cameroon and they were looking for a savvy investor to put up $124,000 to pay for the chemical solvent that would turn the $3.5 million worth of $20 and $50 American bills green again.

To back up their claims, the clerk said, they produced three black pieces of paper and used a liquid to turn them into $10, $20 and $50 bills.

After they had gone, the clerk did some research on the Internet and found tales of similar scams happening across the globe. In some cases, fraudsters use sleight of hand to change black cardboard rectangles into dollar bills. Some more elaborate con artists coat bills in glue, then coat it in a tincture of iodine, which easily washes off with any liquid.

It was enough to convince the clerk to call police.

The two men were arrested on Wednesday and are each facing a count of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence. The only thing true about their story, Det. Arbour said, is that they are both Cameroon natives.

Et maintenant (Printemps 2010) ces deux même criminels Camerounais qui se disent jumeaux sont condamné a la prison pour des crimes commis en 2008. cette fois-ci il y a trois victimes qui ont subit des pertes totalisants $72,000

And now (Spring 2010) the same two Cameroonian criminals who claim they are twins are sentenced to Prison for crimes committed in 2008. This time there are three victims and losses of $72,000.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/20.../13842146.html

May 6, 2010
Twins jailed for 'black money' scam
By MEGAN GILLIS, QMI Agency

OTTAWA - Twins who claimed to be the sons of a Cameroonian general were sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday for a "black money" scam in which victims handed over cash for a share of stolen treasure.

Victor and Vincent Onana, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud over $5,000 in connection with two incidents involving four victims.

In addition to the jail time, Judge Dianne Nicholas made a restitution order for $33,000.

The court heard that the Onanas purported to have suitcases full of money embezzled by their father and dyed black to be smuggled out of Cameroon. They used real bills blackened with iodine to show how the currency could be cleaned with expensive chemicals.

They promised to double their victims' money, but all they got were piles of worthless black paper.

The first victim claimed that he met the Onanas in March 2008 when, as a security guard in a parking lot, he approached their vehicle thinking they were up to no good.

Yet he agreed to give them thousands of dollars for chemicals to clean the black money, which was wrapped in duct tape and tinfoil. When the Onanas didn't return, he opened the package, found worthless pieces of paper and called police.

Another victim met the Onanas, who posed as prosperous businessmen, at his cellphone booth at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre.

The man, his brother and cousin were given a demonstration and handed over cash in April 2008 after being told they had no choice after learning the secret.

When they went to the police, they recognized one of the Onanas reporting at the station as part of bail conditions on another charge.

Nicholas noted that the victims themselves were "not above reproach."

"These victims knew full well the claims of the Onana brothers involved serious criminal activity," she said.

The Onanas' real history is murky, too. Probation officers could find no one who knew them before they arrived in Canada in 2006. Nothing they said about their lives could be confirmed, including whether they're really twins, Nicholas said.

One said they fled Cameroon because his sister had been killed and his parents persecuted as church leaders who told their followers to give away their possessions.

The other never mentioned it.

http://media.metronews.ca/acrobat/e4...aaa09c9174.pdf

May 15, 2008
‘Black money’ scam now targeting Ottawa citizens
Arrest warrants have been issued for two city men suspected in a scam that has bilked three area residents of $72,000 since last November.
So far, there are three victims of the “black money” scam, but police believe there are others who have yet to report, or who are being targeted,
said Det. Mark Simmons, of the Organized Fraud Section.
The scam sees the perpetrators try to persuade people that piles of bank note-sized paper are real money, which have been dyed black in order to smuggle the currency out of another country. The suspect will appear to turn the paper into real currency by using chemicals that clean off the black dye, said Simmons. The victim is told that they can double or triple their money by buying chemicals to clean the ‘money.’

“The potential victim will be approached and will be shown a sleight-of-hand trick,” Simmons said. “It’s what I would call a gambler’s fraud.”
Brothers Victor Onana (alias John or Jean), and Vincent Onana (alias Abdul or Stephane), both age 29, are wanted on arrest warrants and face charges of extortion, fraud over $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime.
They were also charged with similar offences last November.

They are likely not twins and just as likely, their names are not Victor and Vincent Onana or Jean Chrisostome Onana Awono. Fake names and fake identification documents are extremely common in Cameroon especially amongst scammers and they often use them to immigrate to other countries where they continue scamming. I will add that there are no such names in the "GCE" school records of Cameroon

Ils ne sont probablement pas jumeaux et tout aussi probable que leurs noms ne sont pas Victor et Vincent Onana, ou Jean Chrisostome Onana Awono. Les faux noms et papiers d'identités sont communs au Cameroun, surtout parmi les escrocs et ils les utilisent pour immigrer dans d'autres pays la ou ils continuent leur carrière de criminel. J'ajoute qu'il n'y a aucun noms de ce genre dans les record du GCE - Système Scollaire Camerounais.

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Source de l'article

Twins jailed for 'black money' scam
By MEGAN GILLIS, QMI Agency

OTTAWA - May 6, 2010 Twins who claimed to be the sons of a Cameroonian general were sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday for a "black money" scam in which victims handed over cash for a share of stolen treasure.

Victor and Vincent Onana, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud over $5,000 in connection with two incidents involving four victims.

In addition to the jail time, Judge Dianne Nicholas made a restitution order for $33,000.

The court heard that the Onanas purported to have suitcases full of money embezzled by their father and dyed black to be smuggled out of Cameroon. They used real bills blackened with iodine to show how the currency could be cleaned with expensive chemicals.

They promised to double their victims' money, but all they got were piles of worthless black paper.

The first victim claimed that he met the Onanas in March 2008 when, as a security guard in a parking lot, he approached their vehicle thinking they were up to no good.

Yet he agreed to give them thousands of dollars for chemicals to clean the black money, which was wrapped in duct tape and tinfoil. When the Onanas didn't return, he opened the package, found worthless pieces of paper and called police.

Another victim met the Onanas, who posed as prosperous businessmen, at his cellphone booth at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre.

The man, his brother and cousin were given a demonstration and handed over cash in April 2008 after being told they had no choice after learning the secret.

When they went to the police, they recognized one of the Onanas reporting at the station as part of bail conditions on another charge.

Nicholas noted that the victims themselves were "not above reproach."

"These victims knew full well the claims of the Onana brothers involved serious criminal activity," she said.

The Onanas' real history is murky, too. Probation officers could find no one who knew them before they arrived in Canada in 2006. Nothing they said about their lives could be confirmed, including whether they're really twins, Nicholas said.

One said they fled Cameroon because his sister had been killed and his parents persecuted as church leaders who told their followers to give away their possessions.

The other never mentioned it.

megan.gillis /at\ sunmedia.ca