Hi Victor, thank you for checking out my post; sorry I was on vacation. It seemed to go through now. It is weird. I noticed the xml file had the root tags <xml….>. It must have happened when I opened and saved with an xml editor. I removed it and it seems to go through. Though, the exception was very much misleading.
Now to post another question on how to find out if the fax did indeed go through so I can update my db records accordingly!