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Well, one simple solution is to just call the RCMP in Victoria B.C. and ask them if that person is an officer there. They are obligated to tell you if they are. If they are not, then you can actually launch a complaint with them for impersonating a police officer. You have the IP from the email header.
The letter is an obvious fraud for several reasons.
The Mutal Assistance Treaty is to assist authorities in the investigation of criminal matters, it does not allow one police authority to directly content someone in another country and demand that they provide them proof of anything. If they were in doubt, they would contact the American Authorities and *NOT* you. Notice the little threat that if you do not cooperate he will inform the American authorities? I also wonder why members of the public from the United States complained to the RCMP instead of the American authorities.
I would play with him a little bit, write him back and say you will cooperate fully and ask him the address that such documenation should be mailed to. Or whether the documentation should just be mailed to the RCMP main headquarters in Victoria B.C. along with a copy of the email including the originating I.P. because the email was sent from a hotmail account and not that from the RCMP offices. Also ask him if he is aware that impersonating an officer is a crime in Canada. So he either writes you back using an RCMP email address originating from an RCMP office including his badge number, or you will contact the RCMP directly have have him charged with impersonating a police officer.
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