When I was leaving Egypt through Nuweiba in May 2007, I happened across a Swiss chap in a Kenyan registered Peugeot 504. He had been working on some sort of VSO-like medical project in Kenya and had decided to drive back to Switzerland at the end. He'd crossed Sudan and had been stopped at the Egyptian border because - wait for it - his Kenyan Carnet didn't cover Egypt. After a few days in bureaucratic limbo, he eventually managed to negotiate with Egyptian Customs that if he was able to get a letter of no objection from the Kenyan AA, they would let him in.
A quick hunt on the internet turned up the logo and address of the Kenyan AA. He then constructed a fake letter of no objection from the Kenyan AA, complete with their letterhead, and emailed it to his girlfriend, who was luckily still in Kenya. She printed it out and faxed it to the Egyptians at the Sudan border, who could see that it came from a Kenyan number. It worked!
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