# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-emmanuel-fankem
# Generated: 2026-08-15T21:16:18.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-emmanuel-fankem"
name: "Herman Emmanuel Fankem"
slug: "herman-emmanuel-fankem"
description: "Herman Emmanuel Fankem 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."
tagline: "Unidentified Cameroonian fraudster"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Herman_Emmanuel_Fankem.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1980-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.4
  momentum:             25
  historical:           5.190213333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122912397"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Emmanuel_Fankem"
    title: "Herman Emmanuel Fankem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views