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John Fossey Canada Local time: 07:06 Member (2008) French to English + ...
Mar 20, 2019
I just received the following email from lindaleo080 @ gmail.com:
I'm contacting you in regard to an french content document with 11,643 words (44 Pages). I need this document translated to,English i would like to know if you are interested and available to get this done for me. Please get back to me as soon as you can. Thank you. Best regards
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I just received the following email from lindaleo080 @ gmail.com:
I'm contacting you in regard to an french content document with 11,643 words (44 Pages). I need this document translated to,English i would like to know if you are interested and available to get this done for me. Please get back to me as soon as you can. Thank you. Best regards
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Kristopher Brame United States Local time: 07:06 Member (2018) German to English + ...
Same happened to me
Mar 20, 2019
I got an email from her on Monday. I thought it was a scam because of the grammatical errors but thought perhaps her English just was not good. I wrote her back saying that I would need 50% of the payment up front on PayPal. She proceeded to send me a document in Spanish (I guess she forgot that she was originally looking for a FR > EN translation) and wrote "I'm proposing a certified bank draft, a cashier check or bank certified check".
Do you think the scammer was looking for a fr... See more
I got an email from her on Monday. I thought it was a scam because of the grammatical errors but thought perhaps her English just was not good. I wrote her back saying that I would need 50% of the payment up front on PayPal. She proceeded to send me a document in Spanish (I guess she forgot that she was originally looking for a FR > EN translation) and wrote "I'm proposing a certified bank draft, a cashier check or bank certified check".
Do you think the scammer was looking for a free translation or phishing for banking information? Or am I at any sort of risk from looking at the document they sent me? ▲ Collapse
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John Fossey Canada Local time: 07:06 Member (2008) French to English + ...
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Classic advance payment scam
Mar 20, 2019
No, they will try to get you to agree to be paid with a paper document such as a bank draft, send you too much and ask you to refund the difference.
Then a month later it will be found that the draft is a forgery, and you're out of pocket.
Robert Forstag
Kristopher Brame
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Emi Lecret France Local time: 13:06 English to French
Same offer from SPA>FRE
Mar 21, 2019
Dear colleagues,
I have just received the same offer today from SPA>FRE. Obviously a scam... as they sent you the request from FRE>ENG. Thank you for posting.
"I'm contacting you in regard to an Spanish content document with 11,643 words (49 Pages). I need this document translated to,French i would like to know if you are interested and available to get this done for me. Please get back to me as soon as you can. Thank you. Best regards"
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