I can feel you man! The nice things could be that we are not from the same country so this feeling is not just related to a specific place in the world.

You just won a zap. 

In my country it's a clear racket, the notaries themselves know it and it creates this pride of "being in" and not having to work but just collect from you. 

purpurato

I think notary is in my top5 bsJobs, in my country they could be easily swapped with an datacenter with database. Full stop. Average gross salary 200k euro.