A Candian? Holy ---fudgesicle--- dude. Besides the email, there are so many red flags in the story that at some point he should have just said, "what the ---fudgesicle---," and cut out early on the deal. Instead he keeps going and going like a damn fool. Washing shrink wrapped money? Renting trucks? Plane tickets to pay for people to fly to location X in order to borrow money? Breaking a bottle of, "formula?" Then paying $120K to replace it?!
This guy doesn't qualify as dumb. This guy is the epitome of EPIC FAIL. He might as well make posters with his face and those words, that's the only way he's ever going to get any money back.