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Reporting email from Nigel Bennett. This time he is "located " in St. Louis, Missouri and interested in having a document translated. The text is as follows and matches almost exactly to emails sent by him in May 2013. 2013/11/28 Nigel Mark Jennett <[email protected]>

Greetings!

I'm Nigel Jennett from St Louis,Missouri.I'll be making a presentation

to some groups of Czezh speaking people in Prague on the 13th of
January,2014.However,i will need you to help me translate a document
from English to Czech,so each of my audience can have a copy in their
local language and they can follow through.The deadline for the
delivery of translation is January 10,2014.Kindly let me have an
estimate for the document(see attached).I look forward to hearing back
from you soon.

Kind Regards,

Nigel

He accepted my quote and request for payment up front but not how I requested the payment to be sent and did not answer any of my questions. His reply:

Hello Martina,

Thanks for the quick response.The quoted price is fine with me and i will like to proceed with the project.I do not have a Paypal account but google wallet.Please provide me with your payment name,mailing address and contact phone number so i can have my assistant sent out payment to you inform of a Money Order or Certified Check asap.I look forward to hearing back from you.Have a wonderful day.

Best Regards,

Nigel

Thanks to the previous posting here I am not going to work for this person and wish I had done a more thorough research before even replying to him. He is obviously not a real customer in need of a translation.

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Scam from [email protected]

I received a translation from Brenda Mora [email protected]

Your price seems relatively low when compared to other translators and I really do appreciate that. Your total of XXXX EUR looks very good with your delivery time. To make this easier for both parties, you will receive a 50% deposit upfront to start and the balance upon completion of the project. If this works for you, kindly get back to me with the details below so that the payment can be facilitated via wire transfer.

For wire transfer Bank Name: Bank Address: Beneficiary Address: Name of Beneficiary: IBAN: BIC: Beneficiary Phone number / Whats App #:

SCAMMER BIGTRANSWORK

Beware of bigtranswork.com. They are currently targeting translators on this site. The PM is called Ahmed Mahmoud (fake name). This is a fake company/agency. This is the message and email: [email protected] [email protected]

Dear translator. We have a project for translation from Spanish into Italian ( 1010 words ) Project detail Rate: 30 USD Deadline: Tomorrow at 1 PM- CET

Payment terms/ via PayPal Please confirm your availability and i will send the file Waiting for your reply

Ahmed Mahmoud

Scam attempt

Hello,

I received a mail from a certain Kim Snyder ([email protected]) for a need for a translation from English to French. No company name, no address, no phone number. I asked for more details.

After a while she came back with a 42 page document to translate asking for the price and the deadline. But once again with no further information regarding the company or phone number. " Her answer: Your price seems relatively low when compared to other translators and I really do appreciate that. Your total of ... looks very good with your delivery time. To make this easier for both parties, you will receive a 50% deposit upfront to start and the balance upon completion of the project. If this works for you, kindly get back to me with the details below so that the payment can be facilitated via wire transfer / or by check as soon as possible.

For wire transfer Bank name Bank address Name of beneficiary Account number Iban Bic Phone number

For Check Your full name as it should appear on the check Address: Phone number"

end of quote.

Of course, I did not give my details. And will now stop with her.

Data stealing for translators.

This scammer is particularly looking for "qualified translators in different languages" Her/his message goes like:

This job vacancy is totally free to apply! and it is based on translating PDF files from English to other languages such as Spanish,Italian, Portuguese,Japanese,German,French and more as you are free to select any of your choice. Here is what you should do;

I will give you a recruiting PIN code so that you will use it to contact them through their website contact section now.


Pin code: THu4g3v98io


Go to the contact section of their website by clicking on the menu icon and then click on contact and send them that recruiting pincode in your message to them. You can as well contact the live chat team at the right hand side below their website to make your Job application.''


They will message you via your email so you should be checking your email consistently.

The pages where you are are supposed to contact the "human resources" department are pretty crappy and finally the "acceptance letter" gives them away because not only looks very childish but also redaction and irrelevant information is contained. In my case it was https://bozanstveno.com/ and I realized before a quick research on members and non existent records, but another colleague was addressed to https://mainlanche.com and he did sent the translation, a bad one, full of mistakes and nonsense to receive prizes and grateful congratulations for the incredible work done. He was asked to send sensible data about bank accounts to proceed with payments. Once you get in touch with this people the scam becomes pretty obvious, but if you are distracted you can loose a couple of hours, or days translating a very interesting text.

Translation Scam Alert - MultiTransideal.com (Mohammad Anees and Zahid Husain) - Share Widely

MultiTrans Ideal is a scam/fake company, which doesn't pay translators. The owners are Mohammad Anees and Zahid Husain.

Their website is https://multitransideal.com/ and their email of operation is [email protected].

We handled several projects for them and submitted our invoice earlier this year, but they have never cleared our invoice and no one is responding to our inquiry emails. This is another scammer who has been operating under the radar and we need to bring this to the attention of all translators. They have even been banned on Proz, see the link below: https://lnkd.in/dXH-GqT Please share this widely to stop them from scamming someone else.