| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Agencies asking for ID Thread poster: Jennifer Forbes
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| What is your point?! | Feb 1, 2016 |
[quote]liviu roth wrote:
yes, you do
Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
As a service provider, I have my own terms and conditions. My identity is verified here on Proz.com and through my email accounts. If there are worries about identity, there are other ways to clarify it. If a (prospective) client can't accept them, well, they won't become or will no longer be my client. When a prospective client asks for copies of passport, driver's license and similar personal documents, my answer will always be a clear No!
When did you last ask a service provider of any kind for their passport and/or driver's license?
[Edited at 2016-01-29 17:40 GMT]
When you send them your W-9, you provide them with plenty of info, including your SS# and address. !
Lee
[Edited at 2016-02-02 13:54 GMT]
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Completing a W-9 is very different from giving someone actual copies of driver's licenses, passports, social security cards etc. W-9 forms must be filled out in certain situations (as a contractor). Even in that case, one must first do one's due diligence.
| | | | Jennifer Forbes 
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TOPIC STARTER In memoriam | What happened. | Feb 2, 2016 |
The PM at the ID-demanding agency replied that the agency understood the dilemma and that they would be satisfied with a photocopy of the relevant page of my passport with certain identifying details blacked out, so I've sent it to them today - by post, not by email.
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| And now what? | Feb 2, 2016 |
One hopes everybody understand that this process (asking for free-lance contractors some sort of proof of ID) is totally bogus, ISO standard or not.
Because there is no way of verifying, let alone ensuring, ISO standard notwithstanding, that any such contractor identified by an ID has actually taken part in creating a work delivered by such agencies to a customer.
I haven't looked at the alleged ISO standard, but I'll venture that such agencies, at best confuse employe... See more One hopes everybody understand that this process (asking for free-lance contractors some sort of proof of ID) is totally bogus, ISO standard or not.
Because there is no way of verifying, let alone ensuring, ISO standard notwithstanding, that any such contractor identified by an ID has actually taken part in creating a work delivered by such agencies to a customer.
I haven't looked at the alleged ISO standard, but I'll venture that such agencies, at best confuse employees and independent contractors/vendors, and may not be above fraudulently representing such independent contractors as employees. ▲ Collapse
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Jennifer Forbes
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TOPIC STARTER In memoriam | I agree that it's possible, JL01, ... | Feb 2, 2016 |
It is indeed possible that a duly "identified" translator could pass off somebody else's work as their own, but in this particular case I'd been translating for the agency concerned for several years and they'd been duly paying me to the bank account whose details I'd given them.
It wasn't a question of their not believing that I was who I say I am, but simply that they want to be able to comply with the requirements of a certain ISO standard. Complying with that standard does not, of cour... See more It is indeed possible that a duly "identified" translator could pass off somebody else's work as their own, but in this particular case I'd been translating for the agency concerned for several years and they'd been duly paying me to the bank account whose details I'd given them.
It wasn't a question of their not believing that I was who I say I am, but simply that they want to be able to comply with the requirements of a certain ISO standard. Complying with that standard does not, of course, guarantee that the translator is any good at their job.
I don't know why some agencies want to comply with such standards or whether doing so does them any good. ▲ Collapse
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