I AM NOT ANGEL

[awhyzip]

Geez --- it's been how many days since I re-established my landline's lapsed voicemail? And I ALREADY have a recorded message for Angel Artolozzer*. It arrived Monday. *head-palm*


(I assume "Artolozzer" is the computer-generated voice attempting to say "Ortolaza".)

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[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

For a long time my number in Brighton was being used illegally by a couple (Cornelio and Maria Bastos of Coral Gables, FL) to defraud the state of Florida. The scam was that they'd go apply for jobs but give out "his cell number," which the prospective employer would try to call over and over and over to hire them, but of course they'd "written it down wrong," so they kinda met the requirement to actively seek work, except that they'd run like hell if work turned around and sought them.

The whole thing ended with a very long, very interesting conversation one day between me, a social worker for the state of Florida, a Coral Gables deputy sheriff, and the hiring manager for a fudge company who had been calling my house and getting increasingly angry at my voicemail for a month and a half.

But of course, the Bastoses had given out their real street address so they could get their unemployment checks. In hindsight, that may have been a mistake.