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This is a novelty account. I'm an active Reddit user but I'm not going to disclose anyone's identity for legal reasons.

So here's the story. Two months ago, I had a phone call just before 9'o clock on a friday morning. It was my country's embassy at the other side of the globe and they needed a sub-contractor to create HTML/CSS/JavaScript templates for a graphic designer they had hired.

To make a long (and rather surrealistic) story short, they needed the site done over the weekend. It had already been designed but there were some rather complicated design elements that had to be implemented.

I made them a very good deal because of the friend that had referred them to me, didn't demand any advance payment, or a letter of credit [because it was the friggin' government] finished the project and got promised a bonus both by the contractor and my contact at the government agency.

I returned the invoice to the primary contractor and was promised by both him and my contact that I would be payed in a few weeks, after the event the site was for was finished.

Last week I still hadn't gotten payed at all, and neither had the primary contractor. All communications with my contact out there are getting rather shady and the situation with Skype isn't fixing anything in that case.

The bottom line is that today is my country's equivalent of Christmas Eve, my emails to the embassy aren't being replied to and I'm broke and I'm probably not going to enjoy Christmas as I planned to.

So, what can I do?
<bot>: Haven't gotten payed for a project for an embassy abroad and the invoice is long overdue, I'm broke and Christmas is coming up. What do I do?