Mentalechoes

Yesterday I decided to turn the tables on this spanish lottery fiasco mob which have been making my life so interesting over the last week. Through some detective work I found out that any business or trading organisation in Spain needs to have a thing called a CIF number, which in plain english is a corporate tax identification number, issued by the government, and which is needed for any legitimate business to trade. Well I called up the lottery scam guys and asked them for this number, and not so strangely they gave me a lot of grief about why they couldn’t do it, and then promptly hung up on me! All of which I took as him screaming at me that they are a scam and could I now please fuck off as I was becoming annoying.

The thing is, it’s become such an interesting side plot in my day to day life that I don’t really want to stop playing the game now that we’ve got into the swing of things, so I’ve concoted a whole bunch of little scams of my own to keep this thing going. I’ve found the name of a legitimate lawyers office in the same area as the scam guys with a simple web search, and I will call the scam guys and apologise profusely at being so rude as to ask for their CIF number, and of course I understand their need for confidentiality. Which is why I have contacted the other lawyers office to take the case on my behalf and talk to the scam guys directly. I’ll call scam central up every day for the next week or so and see if I can really annoy and piss them off with this! If this doesn’t work I’ll start sending them faxes with hugely piss-taking fake names, details and addresses, and see what kind of reactions I get.

As for the letter these dodgy fuckers sent me, well tomorrow - being Monday - I will take it the local police station and hand it over to them, as I have found out that the Netherlands takes scams like this very seriously and will prosecute to the full extent of the law. Though I’m actually hoping to become such a pain in the arse that being taken to court will be a welcome change from being hassled by me!

Ahh the things we do to keep ourselves amused!

Padwanna!