I am glad to hear that Michael Mains is now in prison. I was a victim of his scams. I met Michael on the internet when I was searching online for investment consulting services in the European Union. Michael Mains contacted me from my post and then later met me in Paris, France, where he was posing as an investment banker. His french is very good, so he was able to convince me that he was a French national citizen. I am the the owner of a vast amount of banana plantations in Africa. Michael Mains owns a bank in the Ivory Coast, so I was able to check his references and find that he is the ligitimate owner of the bank, and so I was confident to meet him in Paris. I needed funding to expand our banana farming operation into the Congo, and he told me his two favorite things in the world were bananas and money, so I felt that he could ideally help us. I gave Michael Mains about $5million Euros in cash (which is over $7million USD). He was supposed to convert that money into bank notes, so that I could negotiate for land purchase from the government of the Congo. Michael Mains fee was going to be 10% plus he wanted the exlusive rights to distribute the Congo bananas for fruit stands in Highland, Utah USA. He was also to put in place the proper import and export lincenses with his import/export company for moving the bananas from the Congo to the USA. He showed me all the proper paperwork and I release the cash funds to him in person at his office in Paris. But that is the last I saw of him. He has stolen the full lot of money, and I have lost my plantation. This man must be stopped. If you are contacted by him, he will be very sweet, and speak very nice French to you, but do not believe him, and do not give this b*****d your Euros. He is also being investigated by the national government of Coat de Ivoir, and if he returns to this country he will be arrested and spend his life in prison. This prison will not be so nice as the prison he is in the USA.