There's also a Greek hotel that's counter-suing scammers for reputation damage, a huge counter claim where the couple fear losing their house ... and so are trying to drop the case ...
without realising that their original "case" has now become a criminal one of fraud that is beyond their control to "drop" or not ...
There's also been someone arrested, in the Balearics I think, but in Spain somewhere I'm almost certain, for walking the streets trying to drum up claims to submit to a legal firm. No doubt the "PR" person was in for a tiny cut of commission for any claims that ended up being submitted, or won.
I remember when I first posted this last year about the scam in Tenerife, and as usual the post went from my website to twitter and Facebook, there were a couple of Facebook followers who really didn't like the story, and could see nothing wrong with it, and indeed accused all of us reporting it, or criticising it, of trying to do ordinary people out of paid work in times that were really hard. They couldn't begin to see, it seemed, that being a scumbag was just being a scumbag and that "hard times" didn't make someone a scumbag, nor justify someone becoming one.
These claims represent an increase of nearly 1000% for such "illnesses" in (always) all-inclusive hotels (where it can supposedly be "proven" that the holidaymakers ate at the hotel) ... and where only the British holidaymakers got sick despite an equal number of Italian, French, Dutch, German, Russian, Estonian, Lithuanian whatever tourists being in the same hotel at the same time.
And then these idiots post their stupid photos on Facebook showing them having a fabulous time, drawing attention to themselves by drinking bucketfuls of alcohol and behaving like only Brits abroad can do, and filling out holiday surveys on the flight home saying they had a wonderful time ... and leaving the "any problems" section blank ...
I've said before there's something about the Brits being the only nationality that won't issue denuncias to the police, but would rather complain on Facebook. Seemingly they're the only nationality too that thinks it's a laugh or an easy scam to make a fraudulent insurance claim that could ruin someone's reputation.
What is it with Brits? I am so seriously jaundiced at the moment, and not least with the monumental Brexit negotiation cockup, that I am closer to becoming Spanish than I have ever been before.