Letter  I:

Dear Xavier,

Please note that my primary objective at this point is to arrange for the safe keeping of this sum of $3,500,000 through investment in your country.

The urgent need to transfer the said fund out Ivory Coast for investment purposes in Argentina is informed by the political conflict in my country, coupled with constant extortion, looting of properties, targeted killing of innocent civilians by both rebels and government forces in my country since the civil war began in 2002.

My father and several other prominent politicians and business men were brutally murdered by agents we believe to be working for the incumbent president of the republic of Ivory Coast, considering their opposition to his government.

This capital which I intend to invest in your country is of legal origin. It is derived from my family's real estate business in the republic of Ivory Coast a and I will provide you with the necessary information you will need to contact the securities and finance company where the fund is deposited as soon as we reach an understanding to work together on this project as partners.

The said fund is presently deposited with a securities company in the republic of Ivory Coast in my name as the bona fide beneficiary. However, this company does not have any correspondence / branch office in your country, through which we can transfer the deposit directly to Argentina.

It is in my best interest to immediately conduct the transfer of this fund out of Ivory Coast, through India where the securities company has its branch office within the next 14- 21 working days, and then to an account (Bank) in Argentina before we can settle down to carry out feasibility studies/due diligence of any investment opportunity you deem proper to place this fund on a long term basis there in your country.

Answer : 

Dear Martin:

I was see in several newspapers, TV and documental your political situation in Cote d´Ivory that are living there. This is really terrible.

What I can offer to you? They are several business of investment: Our team of associate lawyers can offer several business to invest to you from  to buy fields to develop businesses of restaurants in zones with best people and tourism in Buenos Aires towns: Puerto Madero, Recoleta, Palermo Soho, Palermo Viejo and others. (Pls, see in website for tourism. Click here: www.bue.gov.ar  there are to much information.

The team of lawyers what you are going to have to your disposition can perfectly the investments managing.

We needed that You extend a certificate of which the money IS NOT OF CRIMINAL ORIGIN.

If you send the money from Cote d ´Ivory the Argentina government that we are laundering money, If you does from India, better.

We must make a declaration of income from money to Argentina by law. After to have the certificate that I solicit to him, we NOT have problems in receiving.

If you say to us that in 14/21 banking days we are receiving the funds, AFTER to receive the certificate of NON Criminal Origin, gives time us to prepare everything here.

We have very good business to do and to invest.

I hope to have your news soon.

Kind Rgrds,
Xavier

Dear Mr. Xavier,

Thank you very much for your emails, the contents therein is well noted. Thus be informed as follows:

The transfer of the fund to a bank account in Argentina will only be possible after the deposit must have been withdrawn from the branch office of the security company in India.

You will be required to come to India by the time the deposit arrives here for us to meet each other, after which we will then proceed to withdraw the deposit and transfer the money to your country where it will be used for investment purposes.

I intend to make a declaration in the high court of Abidjan, as soon as we both reach an understanding to work together on this project, through which I will appoint as a partner/fund manager, I will also send a copy of the letter of probate in my favor from the High Court of Abidjan Republic of Ivory Coast certifying the capital under discussion as my rightful inheritance from my late father's estate.

Based on the above mentioned declaration, I will instruct the security company to transfer the deposit to India in your name as the bona fide receiving beneficiary, to avoid being subjected to any kind of extortion by corrupt government officials in my country

You for assisting me to actualize withdrawal of this fund from its present location and to secure the same into any profitable investment. 3% will be use to refund both parties for any expenses incurred in the cause of the transaction, while the balance 72% will remain for my family and my self.

Dear Mr. Martin:

Perfectly understand your message, which; transmit immediately to my lawyers and partners.

I must comment to you, in honor to the truth two things:

A: My English spoken is more or less, it is not good; I use translators in line sometimes, mainly to translate documentation not to lose details.

B: I Traveling to India represent for myself a very great cost of money which I do not arrange at this moment.

Let me to suggest to you and to comment ideas to you:

IF we received the copy of the Certificate of Non Criminal Origin (in hard copy or by email), we present it in the Central Bank of the Republic Argentina and to your name like foreign investor.

Accepted the document, you can transfer deposit from India to Buenos Aires. Without risk for any part and no spend money or time.

This was single a suggestion.

It's YOUR money and you can do make better to him.

We only are for helping you for a best way possible.

Thanks for the communication; we waited for their news soon.

We are ready to offer to you good businesses and of to live peacefully here, in the most European city of Latin America.

Warm greetings

Dear Mr. Xavier,

I am in receipt of your email and the contents therein are well noted.

Please note that due to the lack of security and order since the war began in my country, legitimate businessmen are constantly subjected to extortion and intimidation by corrupt government officials in my country.

Therefore, I have decided for this purpose to transfer this deposit out of the republic of Ivory Coast as a foreign owned deposit in your name to India as there are high traffic of expatriates and foreign businessmen withdrawing their capitals from the country since it is presently considered a failed state.

It is important that you have to come to India by the time the deposit arrives here in India for us to withdraw the deposit in your name.

Yours truly,

Martin Maes

answer Letter III Sept 1, 2006

Dear Mr. Martin:

Take due note from your letter. .

TODAY I will reunite with the CEO of my bank to speak of this subject.

I confess to you that we will try to see, to analyze that we can make from here to give the aid that You need.

We will be in contact with you in week end.

To your orders,
Xavier

Letter IV sept 2 , 2006

I must to make many questions:

1. I do not know the laws India, from this point I must ask:
2. I am at this moment with one of my personal lawyers and make the questions that we believe are very important.
3. HOW you to transfer from Cote d´Ivory to India the funds?
4. How is the bank? in Cote d´Ivory and India?
5. How the government of Cote d ´Ivory is going to allow removing funds to India? This can be followed or tracked by different agencies of security: CIA, FBI, SURETE (France), SIDE (Argentina), by this subject, by the actions of the world-wide terrorism, the Narco-laundering of money, WE need the Certificate Non Criminal Origin.
6, Here in Buenos Aires, I must present you like a Foreign INVESTOR, and I ARE your Local Partner to have minors taxes by transference of funds.
7. I am not going to travel to India. I do not have the money to travel 24.800mi! ….But, if you say to me number of account of the bank, the name of the bank official, his email I do I contact with in your name.
While we wait that you arrive at these coasts and to live in peace!
8, another subject is that I send you my personal data so that the bank official knows of my existence and him can contacting with me.
9. have you some photo hers? I will like to know who I speak across of the Atlantic Ocean.

Attached I send you photos of me..

Letter V Sept 5

Dear Sir,

Our operation in India will be limited to only withdrawing the deposit from the affiliate/correspondence office of the security company in the republic of Ivory Coast and according to the law of India we are eligible to open a domiciliary account with any of the prime banks here where the money will be lodged for onward remittance to your bank account.

In line with the terms and condition of this deposit, the security company will transfer the deposit to her affiliate/correspondence office in India upon receipt of a written instruction from the bona fide beneficiary of this deposit.

It should be restated that we deemed it necessary at the time the fund was being deposited with the security company in Ivory Coast early 2002 by my late father, when the ongoing war in my country became inevitable as a result of the political conflict then, to evoke our right to privacy for security reasons and declare the content of the trunk box in which the fund is contained as family treasures instead of cash.

The security company can only conduct the transfer of this deposit to her affiliate/correspondence office in India, but not the transfer of the fund to an account in your country as it does not offer banking services.

As such we have to meet in India by the time the deposit arrives, for us to withdraw it (deposit) and then transfer the money via swift to your country in my name as a foreign investor through you my local partner.

I have advised my attorney to obtain certificate of non criminal origin from the Ivorian Economic and Financial Crime Commission with regards to this sum of three million five hundred thousand U.S dollars, as soon as the document is issued I will forward copy to you for your record purposes.

Attached herein is copy of my passport, the security company will contact you only in the event that I submit an application to the company for the transfer of the deposit to India in your name as my partner and receiving beneficiary of the fund. And also based upon the declaration I will make in the High Court in my country to this effect.

Please call me today with your attorney/legal adviser to discuss this issue further

Yours faithfully,

Martin Maes

Dear Martin:

Sorry me, I no call you, because my English spoken is no good, ( my lawyer  speak good English and my partner speak French) but I have some questions to do and I believe is important:

1. The Company where are deposited funds, may I know the name?
2. It is possible that you remove HIS funds of the Company of Security and deposits them in a bank of origin of the USA or France? "To remove": May you to take the physical money, in a suitcase, without you to make transact of transferences and to go after a foreign bank? Understand you to me what I say you?
3. Exist in your country the Banque National de Paris (BNP), Citibank, Bank Boston, HSBC?
4. Why I ask this to you? Because those banks are in Buenos Aires.
5. If you transfer his funds of HSBC, Citibank, Bank Boston, BNP of the branch of Cote D.Ivory to the branch of Buenos Aires, with certificate of Non Criminal Origin, etc.; easy are to move of the funds to Argentina as foreign investor and gives me to present as your local partner to transact after entrance the money to Argentina.
6. My lawyers suggest to me we begin to write a contract or agreement because I am your local partner to present in the bank that is finally decided to deposit  funds, to put clarity in the subject for you, for me, for the bank and for laws of Argentina.
Also we will be safe from problems.
7. Meanwhile I am to you prepare (by the dates that you said to me, 14/21 days), a profile of investments.

We continued working in all this. I wait for his gentile commentaries ASAP ("As Soon As Possible")

Kind Rgrds

Letter VI Sept 05 11:00 p.m.

Dear Martin:

I have seen that his passport no valid, o not?

Have you any personal photos?

Can you to send something to me of your personal data?

• complete name,
• marital status,
• age,
• occupation

I have already spoken to everything afternoon with my lawyers and partners:

all they say me that is very possible to move to You and your funds , to present to you like a foreign investor, and when from your arrival, you ARE free of some taxes to present of this way.

I do a simple question to you:

We must make some payments for our lawyers for consulting, for which I must ask you if you are possible to send US$ 2, 000.  (Two thousand U.S. Dollars)  by Western Union or Money Gram to my local branch of these companies.

Obviously , this ARE given back to your person when you ARE with us.

I hope to know soon of you.

We have all ready list so that You arrive at Buenos Aires.

My complete name is Martin Maes and I was born on the 1st of January 1979 to late Dr. Kaita Maes who was assassinated alongside other political opposition leaders and human right activist in the early stages of the on going war in my country. I am 27 years old and single.

By the virtue of my position as the only surviving son of Late Dr. Kaita Maes and in accordance with the probate laws of Ivory Coast, I have been duly issued with a letter of probate by the High Court of Abidjan as the bona fide beneficiary of my late father's estate.

The name of the company where the fund is deposited is Darmstadt Private Security Vault Company.

It is practically impossible at this point for to travel to Ivory Coast where I will have direct access to the fund, to be able to withdraw the money and then lodged it with either Citibank or HSBC Bank. This is because of the war there in my country.

However, it will be possible to instruct the security company to transfer the deposit to her branch office in India where we will have direct access to the fund to be able to withdraw it from the company and then deposit it with any of the above mentioned banks for onward transfer to your country.

This arrangement will require you to travel to India by the time the deposit arrives here from the republic of Ivory Coast, so that we will conduct the fund transfer to your country and then travel back together to begin the fund investment in your country.

Consultation fees for both legal and financial adviser's which services will be necessary for the execution of this partnership will paid by the time the fund is readily available in a bank account in Argentina from the total amount in deposit.

Best regards,
Martin Maes.

Answer Letter VII Sept 09

Dear Martin:

I'm all clearer now, I can see better the subject and I thank for the information.

I must understand that You AREN´ T in Cote d´Ivory? But, YES; you ARE  now in India??

As I said to you in other letters I cannot travel for two reasons to India:

A)    I do not have funds necessary to travel 40,000 km from Buenos Aires. Briefly, it is impossible to make the trip for Me.

B)    I cannot be absented of my company for work reasons.

Without damage of this if you have my personal data, you can be handled in India , as if I was (in virtual sense), your partner, your associate in a company.

I advised Xavier to stop all further contact with the scammers.

The passport was fake. You can see some more here:
http://419.bittenus.com/passports.htm#CotedIvoire