  We study the phenomenology of the neutralino dark matter in the so called
deflected anomaly mediation scenario. This scheme is obtained from the minimal
anomaly mediated scenario by introducing a gauge mediated sector with $N_f$
messenger fields. Unlike the former scheme the latter has no tachyons. We find
that the neutralino is still the LSP in a wide region of the parameter space:
it is essentially a pure bino in the scenario with $N_f=1$ while it can also be
a pure higgsino for $N_f>1$. This is very different from the naive anomaly
mediated scenario which predicts a wino like neutralino. Moreover we do not
find any tachyonic scalars in this scheme. After computing the relic density
(considering all the possible coannihilations) we find that there are regions
in the parameter space with values compatible with the latest WMAP results with
no need to consider moduli fields that decay in the early universe.
