STAGE 9

OK... so I thought... how about pushing it even more ;-)

I sent them the following message. Note the highlits and the adnotatios I made for the reader of this blog.

Flinstone Fred

to Alex Tiacoh

cc prevost.frederic58@yahoo.fr

date Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:45 PM

subject Re: BANK TAXATION

Hello Mr. Tiacock,

To this end we are really near to closing the deal on the benefit of both parties. My client shall make the Western Union transfer the day after tomorrow (which is Wednesday). (tomorrow was Friday, actually)

Before proceding, though, we must receive 45% of the amount of 995 Euros from your client, which is 487.2 Euros (45% of 995 is actually 447,7). I know it might seem suspicious but I'm asuring you about our good will and this money will be sent back to you along with the 995. This procedure is due to the decision number 6648 leteer Q of The Stelar Jedi Council of the Secret Services of Romania regarding financing of clandestine gipsy structures via Western Union - therefore, any money transfer outside Romania through Western Union must be preceded by a tranfer of 45% of the amount from the other party.

Please make the transfer of the 487.2 Euros to the following:

Title: Sir

Name: Johny

Name: Walker

Addres: Romania, Bucharest

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Fred Flinstone

STAGE 10

As they did not reply to this, I was afraid I pushed it too far and I lost them. So I came up with the solution: how about telling them that I have a partner in Bulgaria that can send them the money on my behalf. But I need their Bank Taxation document written in cyrillic alphabet. I sent them the following message

Flinstone Fred

to Alex Tiacoh

cc prevost.frederic58@yahoo.fr

date Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:29 PM

subject Re: BANK TAXATION

Hello,

Please tell me if you agree on paying the 45% (487.2 Euros) in advnce to close this deal. In case you don't agree we came up to a solution: our client has a partner in Bulgaria and his partner can make the Western Union transfer on our behalf first thing tomorrow morning. Bulgaria has more relaxed regulation for money transfer so there is no problem about the 45% in advance.

In this case we will need the document attached (Bank Taxation.PDF) writen in cyrillic alphabet for the Bulgarian authorities - please note that it can still remain in English, only we need the letters to be replaced and the document signed by you again.

This will also presume a 12% trasfer tax of 103 Euros (12% of 995 is 119.4 actually) but I hope it shouldn't be a problem, and Mr. Prevost Frederic can return the amount of 103 Euros in cash at his arrival.

Looking forward for your answer,

Fred Flinstone

PS: Please tell us if you need us to send someone to the airport to pick up Mr. Prevost.

STAGE 11

I guess they got a little bit puzzled at this point because they replyed:

from Frédéric Prévost

to Flinstone Fred

date Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:37 PM

subject Re: BANK TAXATION

Good evening,

How are you trying to do according to your message

STAGE 12

I thought... ok, I can make it easier for them, why not. I will put the document in cyrillic myself and I'll send it to be signed. See my message bellow and the attached document - of curse it is not really cyrillic, just a text font that resemles cyrillic that I found on www.dafont.com ;-)

from Flinstone Fred

to Frédéric Prévost

cc www_office_control@ymail.com,

opfinancier-bicici@financier.com

date Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM

subject Re: BANK TAXATION

Good evening,

what I was informing you is that my client has a partner in Bulgaria and our partner will pay the 995 Euro to Mr. Kanga Franck through Western Union from Bulgaria in order to avoid the Romanian anti gipsy structures advanced payment of 45%.

In order to proceed so first thing tomorrow, we need the document attached signed and stamped again by your authorities (I put it myself in cyrillic alphabet).

This is because the official alphabet of Bulgaria is cyrillic and they cannot authorise any payment that a Western Union officer cannot understand - note that I kept it in English though, so you can read it before signing.

Like I was saying this comes with a tax of 103 Euros, but you can pay this tax in cash at your arrival in Bucharest because it is not a big amount.

Sincerely,

Flinstone Fred