Dear Mrs June, or is it Mrs Cole?

I was concerned about this last e-mail of yours, because there was no Magyar in it. However, since you and I probably won't 'speak' again, I'll overlook it.

Sorry for not replying earlier. Goodness me no, I have not received the funds, I have not even contacted the barrister, as I was touring my properties. I'm trying to stay on top of things in the company. Since I'm not an engineer or financially savvy, this has been a challenge. I don't want the men who run the construction crews to think they can get around me. There's a lot of money involved and I have to put that first and foremost.

I will e-mail your barrister fella, sometime this weekend, but I have a lot on my mind today. [I'm starting to question these invoices that come into headquarters - $5000 seems like a lot for a framastat. I need to ask my advisor Serge about this, but that will have to wait for the weekend.]

OK enough about my problems, thanks for the tip and I'll follow up with the barrister.

Thanks for your tip.

November 18, 2009

Oh jeepers, time has flown.
I have dropped him a line. I'm not sure why the hurry. The money isn't going anywhere, is it?
Also, I didn't realize you were involved in this.
Your first e-mail suggested that you were just passing on some good advice about your own experience reclaiming your funds.
How are you still involved, and if you are, where is the MAGYAR?
Are you getting a kickback from this barrister?
I need to be reassured on this point.

To Charles Anyanwu Esq
Email : legalmatters2008@voila.fr

Dear Mr. Anyanwu,

I received an e-mail from a Mrs June Cole.
She said you had helped her reclaim some funds related to her business contract with some organization, agency, she didn't say.
She seemed to think that my late husband's company is owed funds.
She suggested I contact you for further information.
Mrs Cole has repeatedly refused to specify WHO or WHAT ORGANIZATION she thinks owes the company money.
Also, she now seems to expect a kickback from you in return for referring me to you.
Can you please clarify:
- WHO or WHAT ORGANIZATION is supposed to owe my husband's company money
- What is the CONNECTION between you and Mrs June Cole?

I appreciate any help you can provide in fulfilling my husband's contract, but we have no record of any outstanding payments in West Africa.

Dear Mr. Anyanwu,
Thanks for your reply. I only saw it now, because it got filtered.

I do not know why, but Yahoo will not let me reply to your mails. So, here we go. I hope you get this.

My late husband's name was Jeff Cole, and he was a partner in Cole & de Nîmes.

Actually, I was confused by Mrs. June Cole's last name. I assumed at first that she was somehow related to Jeff, but she didn't say anything about that.

Cole & de Nîmes specialize in medium-to-large infrastructure projects, and they have done work in West Africa, so it's possible that there are outstanding debts. However, as I said, Mrs. Cole would not tell me who she thinks owes the firm money. I found that odd. My last e-mail to her bounced undelivered. So I really wonder about her.

Finally, I don't understand what Bridge Bank or the UK Treasury have to do with any of this. I'm not aware that Cole & de Nîmes ever banked with Bridge Bank, or had any projects in the UK.

I was going to refer this whole matter to Serge de Nîmes, my late husband's surviving partner, who is smart about business, but perhaps you can clear things up.

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For curiosity's sake, let's see where this is all coming from:
Anyanwu: 82.128.33.32
Mrs Cole 82.128.34.200, 82.128.35.5, 82.128.34.241, etc.
82.128.32.0 - 82.128.63.255 are assigned to (CDMA 1x/EVDO Dial up pool, MultiLinks, Nigeria)

Dear Mr. Anyanwu,

It's puzzling. Cole and de Nîmes had no telecoms consultancies, other than subcontracts to build satellite installations, just the building part, not the electronics. I don't know too much about that side of things, but Jeff did mention something about satellites, during his final illness. To be honest, he wasn't making much sense toward the end.

So, much as we could use $7.5 million, this may be a mistake, and anyway it seems this Mrs Cole is trying to do a number on you. I think she presents herself as a go-between to naive people like me, and then maybe asks her victims for a 'gift' in exchange for referring us to you. She hasn't done that yet, but I bet it's coming. [Did your e-mail to her bounce, like mine did?]

I don't like to think ill of people, but it looks fishy.

I should run all this by my husband's partner, Serge de Nîmes. It is almost Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, and things are slowing down as people prepare. My family is coming from all over, and Serge will join us. I will get his guidance then, if not before. He is my pole star on matters of this importance.

Regards

(It will soon be time to enlist Serge de Nîmes, ex-Foreign Legion, and surviving partner in the firm. If Serge and I don't get any more action, so to speak, before Thanksgiving, happy turkey day to all, but don't be one!)

[More to come?]

I have only seen this today. It's getting near the holidays, you know. I have been quite busy preparing the villa for my grandchildren, who always come at Christmas. They expect expensive presents, of course, which they will get, I always spoil them.

But to business -

> I have given you the details available now about the fund in my earlier email

You have NOT.
I would have no problem paying for your assistance if you were capable of replying to simple questions, but it seems that you don't even KNOW what this is about.

You said the funds would be sent back or something at the end of the financial year, but in your earlier mail you said the funds had already been repatriated.

> How do I know that I am dealing with the right person.

"Mrs June" (who you seem to know) approached ME, not the other way around.
For that matter, how do I know that you are who you say you are.
Perhaps you could send some proof. Are you a licensed consultant?
Have you got a certificate from the ULM? [Union of Licensed Mugus, of course

> I am not obliged to give you all the information you are requesting for

And I'm not obliged to pay you for services you haven't delivered.

"Mrs June" implied that YOU were the consultant. She said you helped her.
But it sounds like your job is answering the mail and making coffee.
I would like to deal with the head of the firm, not, as Serge puts it, a "small boy".

This is a lot of bother so far, for a mere $7.5 million.

If you're not interested in making your fee, I'll leave it there, unless you want to get something concrete done by the end of the financial year.

Well now I who owe the apology, because I have just seen this.
It's almost New Year, and we have a lot on just now. Parties and so on.
The grandchildren have come and gone, dear ones all, I love them and plan to leave them my estate, but secretly I'm glad when they go home to their parents. I've been there and done that, if you know what I mean.

Still I must say I'm surprised that you're the one in charge. I don't look down on you, but I am surprised you expect to be paid for work not yet performed. Cole and de Nîmes is also a consultancy and have never billed for work in advance. They may get an advance, but never the full payment. Let me put it this way, if you are acting as a consultant, then you should be prepared to make a deposit into an escrow account, just like Cole and de Nîmes did on their projects.

>I am already working for an organization in the disbursement of the fund so can not also handle yours as it concerns the same fund.

This makes no sense. Either the money was not actually owed to my husband, in which case we have nothing to discuss, or else you want to give my husband's money to someone else, in which case there is a big problem and I will have to turn to Serge to approach his old buddies in your part of the world, and that would not be pleasant for either of us.

>I will appreciate if you let me know exactly what you want me to do for you.

Just as before. An honest man would simply say where the money is and let us pursue it directly, but no matter. If you say my husband's company is owed money, then I want to know:
- WHAT was the contract (and don't just say 'telecommunications', that's too vague and besides, as I said, Cole and de Nîmes did not do electronics projects), nature of the work, contract number and so on
- WHO or WHAT COMPANY or AGENCY owed the money
- WHERE the money is
- WHO is the COMPANY or AGENCY agent we should approach

This isn't rocket science. It's basic stuff like in school journalism class: WHAT, WHEN, WHO, WHERE, and or course WHY. With so much money at stake, why wouldn't you have the details at hand? You do keep files, don't you? Or do you write your affairs on your sleeve?

> The best I can do for you is to recommend someone else.

That sounds like the words of a small boy indeed.
However, it's not a problem; I've heard from a Mr. Mike Ogiahdome, well he says he is a Chief, and a financial advisor, and he claims he can move things along faster. If you are really unavailable, or unable (or unwilling) to open a file and give me the details about this matter, I know what I have to do. Mr. Ogiahdome says he will be back in his office by early January and may be able to help me then.

Best wishes for a prosperous 2010 in your new profession, should you decide that consultancy is too demanding.

Dear Mr. Anyanwu,
I happened to look at my old e-mail address, the one I gave up using for corresponding with you, and to my surprise there was e-mail from "Mrs June Cole".

She says:
"Obviously somebody is impersonating me.I am not in Africa but here in Alaska."

Something is very wrong here, because the Interweb Identification Protocol Coordinate attached to her e-mail shows that the e-mail came from Lagos, Nigeria. [I got this information from our IT guy at Cole and de Nîmes, who does not know what it's all about, but tells me to be careful when dealing with strange e-mails.]

What am I supposed to think now?

This "Mrs June Cole" may be trying to do a number on you. We have a saying here in my country, if you lie down with carp, you end up with scales.

Not a nice way to begin the new year.

To so-called Anyanwu -
Do not trouble yourself here.
I have said the maga is in hand, I asked you politely.
Sharing is settled, if you understand me.
You sit in your small place and wait for small jobs to come to you and let me do my business. I operate at a different level ok.