Dr. Max Wieldruk and Jose Randy

Mail 20: Still unable to use the fax...

Subject: Problems with the fax

Dear Jose,

I was really sorry to hear about your wife's health.

As to using telephone and fax: I will give you my office telephone and fax numbers, but, brother, only as a token of trust in you. Please do not use them, only in case of very very urgent need: tel: +31 xx xxx xx xx / fax: +31 xx xxx xx xx I will be able to receive faxes but these will certainly be seen by others, which will severely jeopardize our project. Actually I tried to send the claim from the office fax late in the evening today. (My secretary was out, and I had to tell my wife I was working overtime.) But I never use a fax and I don't think I could get it to work as it should. I doubt if the document really arrived with Mr Musu Aga. And I can't go and ask my secretary to tell me how the fax works because I have a very confidential fax to send to Togo????

Mind you, I live in the Republieck Rottumerplaat, a wonderful country, but some things simply don't work as they do in other parts of the world. In my position it is next to impossible for me to send a confidential personal fax message. The risks of either the Secret Police finding out or the Dutch tracking down such a message are simply far too great. And moreover, international telephone and fax lines run across Dutch territory and are often interrupted. Can't I just file the claim with the bank simply by sending a (registered) letter? Or does Mr. Musu Aga have an e-mail address? I might use that…I will try to get one of these new-fangled cell phones, but in our country these have to be specially imported from Denmark, and they don't come cheap.

My house was recently valued at ROS 6,934,153, which is approx 500,000 euros. It's a nice house, true.

Yours,

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Dr. Max Wieldruk

1012 AA Saaftinge, Rottumerplaat

Note from Max: the telephone and fax numbers belong to a real company in the Netherlands, however to a company that is specialised in fraudulent acquisition for inclusion in a 'business information website'. A kind of bloodless crime that many Dutch organizations fall victim to... I don't mind our African friends calling them, but I hesitate to publish their telephone number...