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A strange coincidence occurred the other day. Tuesday to be precise.
I get a call from my bank (Security), asking me how I plan to proceed with the funds that have been wire transferred to my account from NY.
My initial response was a rotund ?!
The man at the bank thought it a bit strange that I should not know what he was talking about, so I began to theorize on how said amount could have come my way.
The only possible logical explaination was drug trafficking, but then I would have had to traffick drugs first.

So began my investigations. The bank sent a fax which showed the money was actually coming from Devon. The good people at Plant World had bestowed this generous and altruistic gift upon me for ...? (this was my ideal hypothesis).
I went online (plantworld-devon.co.uk/), and then I googled Axel Brinck (google.com/search?q=axel+brinck&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8), coming to the realization that there had been an error in the recipient. It was for a long lost uncle (Axel "Polo" Brinck, my dad's cousin).

So, to make a long story short, I wrote to Ray at Plant World


----- Original Message -----

From: Axel Brinck

To: raybrown@plantworld-devon.co.uk

Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:38 PM

Subject: Payment


Hi Ray,

My name is Axel Brinck, from Santiago Chile. My bank called my about a deposit that was wired from your company to the sum of 1400 U$, which quite surprised me since I have not done any business with your company and random acts of kindness are a bit scarce these days.
I went through google and discovered there is another Axel Brinck out there who had discovered a new type of Alstromeria, and in your website, I noticed there are several types on offer.
I imagine if you are wiring money to an Axel Brinck in Chile, it is not me.

Please let me know, the money is being held in the Security Bank, Santiago, Chile.

Best regards,

And Ray responded back:

I will sort things out (basically).

And then my dad got in the mess

(it's your uncle's dough son),

and an email popped in from Polo
(no idea how he got my email, but anyway)
"Please return my money" (more or less).

And I have been trying to call the man at the bank, to let him know that the funds (which to be freed require a letter from the recipient stating origen of the same).

And back to life as we know it.


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El Martes me llaman de mi banco, para preguntarme que hacer con nos dolares que me traspasaron desde el extranjero a mi cuenta.
yo: que?!
Por dentro (hmmm.. que bien? o que mal?)
le pregunto quien lo mande al del banco. no sabia.
ah..
Me dijo, espera, te mando el fax.
Aparecia una empresa de plantas en Devon, Inglaterra.
No me sonaba Plant World, y como no estoy exportando nada (licito ni otro), no me calzaba.
No era poco, asi que dije que lo llamaba de vuelta.
Me meti a la pagina Plantworld-devon.co.uk Es una empresa que se decica a raras especies de flores y plantas. Te venden las semillas.
Ayer me meti a google. Escribi Axel Brinck. Aparecia uno que habia descubiertos unas flores nuevas en el desierto de Coquimbo. Aha!
Le pregunte a mi papa (otro Axel Brinck). Sips! Su primo Polo de Concepcion.
Vamos que se puede!

Le escribe a Raymond de Plant World.
me contesto que habia habido un error.

Asi que nada, no me llego platita del cielo como quise creer en un instante.
Pero la historia esta buena.