Finding Missing Spaniards

May 5, 2005 11:40 AM

My small work-group is attempting to find a missing client in Spain. We have a moderate sum of this guy's money, but he moved without alerting him alerting us of his new contact information. Is there a free way to track down a person internationally (in Spain specifically)?

The Reverse Phone Book and Switchboard.com options don't seem to be working. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

posted by aburd to human relations (5 comments total)

Also, small fee solutions wouldn't be unappreciated.
posted by aburd at 11:51 AM on May 5, 2005

Is your client Spanish, or just living in Spain? If the latter, perhaps a call to the embassy or consulate? If the former, maybe a government agency (think Spanish equivalent of IRS or police) might have more info.
posted by aberrant at 2:10 PM on May 5, 2005

Is your group in Spain?
posted by rhapsodie at 2:26 PM on May 5, 2005

He is actually Spanish. And we are not in any way usually associated with Spain. This guy became a client and had a residence in Spain. He then moved. We still have a fairly significant bit of his money (enough to buy a car, but not enoguh to buy a house).

Oddly enough he shares the same name with a semi-famous soccer (football) player for his country. So every google search is filled with references to this guy. Not that this has stopped me from exploring most of them on the odd chance that they are the same person.
posted by aburd at 4:41 PM on May 5, 2005

If you are having trouble with google, try the following query: "guysfullname -soccerplayerfirstname [not sure how much of the name he shares] -soccer -football -athelete" or something similar.
posted by michaelkuznet at 5:47 PM on May 5, 2005