I faced this problem a couple of times. The following solution worked for me.
- copy the existing pom file as a back up, and delete the dependency that's causing this error. delete the contents of the folder which this artifact is referring to.
- add the deleted dependency in the pom again and add the jar files in that folder.
- do a Maven->update Project. The errors will go away.
As a side note, sometimes when you're copying files from some other computer there may be encryption.