Adventures in hotel theft -- second installment

It seemed appropriate to split this up. So, we last left our hero with a gracious response from the hotel requesting my bank account info, and this is my reply. For some reason, I found myself slipping into a very verbose "Nigerian spam" vernacular:

Mr. ******:

I truly appreciate you contacting me. I had honestly thought my email had been lost. I enjoyed my stay at your hotel, and in Milan, and this incident is the only negative part of the stay. But it has caused me a great deal of concern, so I appreciate your offer to compensate me for the theft.

I am glad to hear that your staff is not responsible, but I am equally concerned that someone who is not a staff member would have access to the rooms. I agree that it is very damaging to your hotel to have someone at large with the ability to enter rooms at will. I would be happy to report the whole incident to the Milan police if that would be helpful to you in catching this criminal. It would be of no use to me to view the video, but the police may be able to use it.

I'm sure you understand that I have not retained reciepts for these personal items. I have no reason to keep recipts for items that are no longer able to be returned to the store. But I am happy to provide links to the items from the stores they were purchased, for a cost demonstration.

The headphones were purchased here for $100:
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And the USB card reader can be found here:
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I do not feel comfortable emailing bank information, so I would prefer an alternate payment method. You may mail me a check or money order to:

Jeff Foxx
**************
**************
******, ** *****
USA

Thanks again for your attention to this matter.

Shortly after, I received this response:

Dear Mr. Foxx,
I truly appreciate your benevolent understanding of the circumstances.
I want to inform you about our reaction to this miserable event. We have taken prompt counter-measures as follows: all the ground floor safety doors have been locked so that now it is virtually impossible to sneak in the hotel unseen. It is only possible to exit through those doors in case of emergency.
Anybody who wants to enter ***** Hotel, from now on, must pass in front of Reception (monitored 24/7)
In addition we have hired security agents who shall guard the entrance area daily in the dangerous hours between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. plus full day on weekends (very costly!!)
As we know who the person is, and have spread pictures to the security Company and to all our staff, we believe that no more robberies can be performed in Hotel *****.
Last but not least we have ordered new doors equipped with state of the art anti-intrusion locks for all our rooms, in case all our filters fail and somebody does succeed in accessing the floors.
We have already spoken to the Police and handled pictures and videos of the crime scene.

Concerning your refund, I have spoken with our account dpt: they do not necessitate your original receipts, your self-declaration is sufficient because the amount involved is limited. The only restriction is that payment must be wired directly to your account. I kindly ask you to forward me your bank details:
a) via regular mail at the following address: **********, ********- Milan (Italy)
b) via fax at +39 02 ******** to my attention
c) via short message on my mobile +39 *** *******

As soon as I get the required information the net amount of US$ 140,00 will be credited to your account.
Thank you again for your cooperation.
Best regards
******** *********

OK.. yeah. I don't feel secure emailing my bank information, but I'm happy to fax it. At this point, I'm starting to think that it's not going to happen. So, I sent him a Paypal money request on Friday, April 18. So far, I haven't heard from him.