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SCAM - Ray Mayer
Thread poster: Andrea Wells
Andrea Wells
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United States
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English to Spanish
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Aug 26, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

I just received an email from a Ray Mayer, enquiring about a very large translation project. I was very suspicious, so googled him and found out his domain is being used in a widespread scam to get people to give their PayPal accounts.
If you receive any emails from him, I recommend you ignore it.
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Dear Colleagues,

I just received an email from a Ray Mayer, enquiring about a very large translation project. I was very suspicious, so googled him and found out his domain is being used in a widespread scam to get people to give their PayPal accounts.
If you receive any emails from him, I recommend you ignore it.
Here is the link highlighting the scam.
http://www.virtualassistantforums.com/scam-library/usaid-gov-tony-mayer-scam-17658

Best regards,
Andrea

Andrea Martinez-Wells
VP Spanish Linguistics
AJIS LLC
Mob: 925.200.4149
Skype: andrea-wells
[email protected]
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
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Japan
Local time: 01:14
Member (2005)
English to Japanese
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Amazing! Aug 27, 2010

Thanks for the info, Andrea.

I clicked the link you posted, and I was amazed to find out that the posting dates back to 2007. This means that this so-called Ray Mayer has been around for at least 3 years using the same alias and trying to rip-off people over the Net.

[Edited at 2010-08-27 04:22 GMT]
 


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