Cyberfraud Report: The fictitious "African Continent Kingdoms Federation".

                                    

Sham African Kingdoms Federation Phony Websites set up to Trick Confuse the Navigating Internet Public.

by Abdou Latif Coulibaly

July 03, 2012 -- Updated 1129 GMT

Document Summary

People who are searching the Web for information on the legendary Queen of Sheba often found themselves at the door of a site known as imperialafrica.net posing as an African sovereign entity related somewhat to the late empire of Sheba. The site has a temting name such as "The Sovereign Imperial House of Ra"-But nothing of thar site is affiliated with a known African Royal House or a constitute African State Organization endorsed by international law or treaty as it is ofen the case. New technolgy has made it possible to invent new Federal government which exist only in Cyberspace. Why bother with a small-time scam; when you can run a  mega scam based on an overall nation! APO Report  

Confidence Trickster Debra Amelia George-Kasambura aka Grace Aluma aka Self-styled "Queen"of Shebah Latest Scam-imperialafrica.com

Royal Impostor:Grace Aluma aka Debra Amelia George
Kasambura aka self-styled Queen Shebah 

Throughout history, royal dynasties have dominated countries and empires around the world. Kings, queens, emperors, chiefs, pharaohs, czars -- whatever title they ruled by, monarchs have shaped institutions, rituals, and cultures in every time period and every corner of the globe. The Queen of Sheba - an exotic and mysterious woman of power - is immortalised in the world's great religious works, where she is viewed as the embodiment of Divine Wisdom . In Africa and Arabia her tale has been told and retold in many lands. Many historians believe that the Queen of Sheba was the ruler of an ancient land known as Saba .This was the home of the Sabaens, who lived in the southwest corner of Arabia, in present-day Yemen. The Sabaeans Semitic in origin, are believed to have been descendents of the Cush of the Bible. Numerous legends refer to the female-centered clans, matriarchal practices, and matrilineal inheritance. Since Sheba was a center of astronomical wisdom life involved worship of the Sun and Moon. The kingdom gradually declined. It finally broke up in the sixth century after the collapse of a huge dam at Marib, the Sabaen capital. 

People who are searching the Web for information on the legendary Queen of Sheba often found themselves at the door of a site known as imperialafrica.com or imperialafrica.net posing as an African sovereign states organization related somewhat through a rather confusing self-made genealogy to  the late empire of Sheba.

The site has a grandiose and 'colorful' name such as “The Sovereign Imperial House of Ra,” —.of Her Imperial Majesty Queen Shebah Sai Ra III and even a presumable NGO known as The Royal Kingdoms Imperial House Foundation-But nothing  of this site is  affiliated with a known African royal house or a constitute African state organization endorsed by international law or treaty as it is often the case . New technology has made it possible to invent new federal government which exist only in Cyberspace. The world's best-known of them all being the "Dominion of Melchizedek", a California-based scam which in recent years has spread its tentacles across the Pacific, Latin America, and even Europe.

Federal authorities determined that ex-convicted con artist, Grace Aluma aka Debra Amelia George –Kasambura a native of  Trinidad and Tobego is behind  the new “online nation” of Sheba. The woman who more so often  styles  herself as the Queen of Shebah is infact a notorious confidence trickster behind a host of counteless financial frauds. Numerous investors have been victimized by false investment and employment scams perpertated through the African Kingdoms Federation Network for  over a decade.

Royal pretenders and crown claimants are not a new thing, however, as royalty and monarchy are driven to the periphery of society, it has become much easier for frauds and false-claimants to make themselves accepted. Particularly with royal houses that have been out of power for many centuries, or for those outside of Europe, particularly in Africa and Asia, it becomes much easier for a phony pretender to pass themselves off as the genuine article because knowledge of such royal houses is so limited, even among monarchist circles perhaps because most have immensely large families which tend to discourage serious genealogical research. In some cases, these people are mostly out for money, in others it is simply a desire for recognition and adulation, and in probably the most cases they involve the thirst by so many for titles of nobility and orders of knighthood to feed their own vanity. Each one who receives such an "honor" then become (usually) staunch defenders of the claimant, no matter how ridiculous they may be, because if they are discredited, the grounds for the title before their name or the medal on their chest is also discredited

If you have been in contact with anybody that claims to represent the African Kingdoms Federaton and offering you such things as diplomatic appointments, titles of nobility, business  licenses or other sham scheme-be aware-

Visit the website and read the history and no matter how carefully you look on an atlas, you won't find the African Kingdoms Federation anywhere other than on the internet.

Created by the con artist presumably for other cons, the African Kingdoms Federation may be little more than an attempt to defraud or swindle the general internet –navigating public.

What they are doing, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is trying to trick internet users into thinking they are an official government Web sites, in the hopes of luring them into some fake investment schemes. This is backed up with the promulgation of a network of fake accounts and publications on social network such as facebook, twitters, youtube and the like. It is a big problem,” said the IC3 official. He said the center had received over 500 complaints about the government-imposter Web sites — many from victims who’ve fallen for the ploy — and the agency had done all it could to warn audiences around the globe.. But still, he believes plenty of victims  are being scammed.

Why bother with a small-time scam, when you can run a mega scam based on an overall nation! Some fraud artists have realized this, and there has lately been a proliferation of Cyber-Nations bogus organizations. 

These particular cyber-scams often have several things in common as reported in a resent study  :.

• First, none of these cyber-scams have bona fide claims to territory. Instead, they have claims which are patently crazy, such as to Antarctica, or they claim land which has long been claimed by an existing, legitimate nation.
• Second, none of the governmental operations of the cyber-scams are actually conducted on the territory which its claims. Instead, most governmental operations take place in the United States or some other recognized country.
• Third, the cyber-scam's government is not derived from the governance of any peoples, but instead was created out of thin air by the fraud artists.
• Fourth, all of these cyber-scams make wildly misleading claims about having been recognized by a major nation, or having "de facto" recognition from such major nation. But to the contrary, the law enforcement bodies of the major nation will probably have issued warnings about this scam and in some case not have even heard of them

Has any country appointed an official Ambassador or Consul to the African Continent Kingdoms Federation other than their own self-styled ambassorship and order of knighthood?

If your country has not established formal diplomatic relations with the alleged organization, it is a giant red flag that you are dealing with a scam, and cause alone not to deal with  the impostors. These scams will present a lot of alleged evidence that they have been "recognized" or "de facto recognized" or similar nonsense, but they will be hard-pressed to prove legitimacy in the absence of an official Ambassador from your home country - meaning that you should not deal with them, period.