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Barry Appleby 
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:51
Russian to English
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Hi
Just received this e-mail and am pretty sure that this is
a scam.
Hi,
We have project need to be translated from Swedish>English, Please send me your resume and best rate. It is very big project. But how much words should be comfortable for you to this deadline, Because we need a good quality.
Thanks and Best Regards.
Roy
Sender's email: Roy Arman
This is the information I get on the URL global-translation-org.
Kafr E... See more Hi
Just received this e-mail and am pretty sure that this is
a scam.
Hi,
We have project need to be translated from Swedish>English, Please send me your resume and best rate. It is very big project. But how much words should be comfortable for you to this deadline, Because we need a good quality.
Thanks and Best Regards.
Roy
Sender's email: Roy Arman
This is the information I get on the URL global-translation-org.
Kafr El Sheikh is in Egypt.
The poor English in the e-mail and the lack of
any business details, I am very suspicious.
Has anybody else on Proz.com received this e-mail
or anything similar?
Regards
Barry Appleby
Domain ID:D159484383-LROR
Domain Name:GLOBAL-TRANSLATION.ORG[Who Is Domain]
Created On:22-Jun-2010 23:40:27 UTC
Last Updated On:22-Aug-2010 03:49:13 UTC
Expiration Date:22-Jun-2011 23:40:27 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com[Who Is Domain] (R27-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:DI_10666829
Registrant Name:Multi Translation
Registrant Organization:MultiTranslation
Registrant Street1:Abo Badwi
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Biala
Registrant State/Province:Kafr El Sheikh
Registrant Postal Code:11211
Registrant Country:EG
Registrant Phone:+00.020118233666
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email: [FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS EMAIL ADDRESS][Who Is Domain]
Admin ID:DI_10666829
Admin Name:Multi Translation
Admin Organization:MultiTranslation
Admin Street1:Abo Badwi
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Biala
Admin State/Province:Kafr El Sheikh
Admin Postal Code:11211
Admin Country:EG
Admin Phone:+00.020118233666
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email: [FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS EMAIL ADDRESS][Who Is Domain]
Tech ID:DI_10666829
Tech Name:Multi Translation
Tech Organization:MultiTranslation
Tech Street1:Abo Badwi
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Biala
Tech State/Province:Kafr El Sheikh
Tech Postal Code:11211
Tech Country:EG
Tech Phone:+00.020118233666
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email: [FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS EMAIL ADDRESS][Who Is Domain]
Name Server:NS23.HOSTING24.COM[Who Is Domain]
Name Server:NS24.HOSTING24.COM[Who Is Domain]
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
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| | | | Natalie
Poland
Local time: 06:51
Member (2002)
English to Russian
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MODERATOR SITE LOCALIZER | Please check the Blue Board | Dec 24, 2010 |
You will find all information at http://www.proz.com/blueboard/29444 and at other records listed in the public note.
Hope this helps,
Natalia
| | | | | So you could say that this is a SCAM, | Dec 24, 2010 |
since this person has a record of non-payment with a list of aliases he has used and has been using with clear intentions of deceiving translators.
| | | | | Swedish - English translation | Dec 27, 2010 |
I had this e-mail today. I looked into the company and their website which is general and does not list an address. They claim to be a member of the ATA but are not on the ATA's list of members.
A scam!
Regards
Andrew
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Marcela Hashim
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:51
Member (2004)
English to Czech
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must have been added to their list, as I received the same e-mail (only with a different language combination) today.
| | | | | Possible scam | Jan 10, 2011 |
I just received this email:
Hello ,
Thanks for your urgent response. I am looking for a translator to work on the pair stated for the new project that I am working on. I have checked your profile and I am at least pleased to tell you that I have chosen you to work on the project for we are in-between a new business that will require us to write out in Spanish/Italian Language. You will be required only to work on one of the two language of your choice, Spanish or Italia... See more I just received this email:
Hello ,
Thanks for your urgent response. I am looking for a translator to work on the pair stated for the new project that I am working on. I have checked your profile and I am at least pleased to tell you that I have chosen you to work on the project for we are in-between a new business that will require us to write out in Spanish/Italian Language. You will be required only to work on one of the two language of your choice, Spanish or Italian language
I am a private investor, I work on short time businesses.
My address is ..
14, Doha Street
Dubai,
UAE.
Now I guess you have an idea of whom you about to deal with.
The total number of words are ... 39774 words. So, to convert from English to Spanish/Italian Language, the project is not too big for the time range given, that is because I plan ahead of time and I take my steps one after the other
++ Kindly state your readiness to translate the document
++ Your best price should be stated and total calculations for either Spanish/Italian Language
++ Categorically, state your country of residence
++ Your terms of payment
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| | | | Adam Warren
France
Local time: 06:51
Member (2005)
French to English
| Don't touch this one, even with a double-insulated bargepole. | Jan 10, 2011 |
"I am a private investor, I work on short time businesses."
The phraseology is almost word-for-word what I got from someone posing as a private business person in Barcelona.
This looks like the traveller's cheque scam, whch has become as endemic as the West African inheritance scam.
I have been through the whole works with these parasites, and lost no money, fortunately, but a lot of time. Other colleagues have been less fortunate, one of them, in entire go... See more "I am a private investor, I work on short time businesses."
The phraseology is almost word-for-word what I got from someone posing as a private business person in Barcelona.
This looks like the traveller's cheque scam, whch has become as endemic as the West African inheritance scam.
I have been through the whole works with these parasites, and lost no money, fortunately, but a lot of time. Other colleagues have been less fortunate, one of them, in entire good faith, ending up owing 15,000 in forged traveller's cheque to her bank.
Leave these people well alone, and don't accept unconventional payments, particularly from abroad. The other touchstone is that the English is fractured, and not of language-industry standard, which undermines the credibility of people purporting to bring language-related business your way.
Another forum has abundant documentation, and I don't know whether the etiquette on ProZ allows me to quote directly. I shall answer any further queries you have directly by e-mail.
I wish you a happy new year and good fortune in these difficult times.
With kind regards,
Adam Warren (IanDhu - 41189)
[email protected]
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| | | | Adam Warren
France
Local time: 06:51
Member (2005)
French to English
| Contacting the authorities about a scam | Jan 10, 2011 |
Hullo, here are some notes I took about reporting the traveller's-cheque scam I got embroiled in, in France:
1. first, report the matter to the police or the gendarmerie, since they would have wide powers to deal with fraud; and
2. secondly, report the facts to the Office Central de Lutte contre la Criminalité liée aux Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (OCLCTIC), whose address is:... See more Hullo, here are some notes I took about reporting the traveller's-cheque scam I got embroiled in, in France:
1. first, report the matter to the police or the gendarmerie, since they would have wide powers to deal with fraud; and
2. secondly, report the facts to the Office Central de Lutte contre la Criminalité liée aux Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (OCLCTIC), whose address is: http://internet-signalement.gouv.fr.
I should imagine specialist agencies for combating computer fraud also exist in all the O.E.C.D. countries, and probably elsewhere as well.
If there are Citizens' Advice Bureaux, as in my native UK, they may well be able to direct you to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
I got to these facts after doing the rounds of the Tribunal d'Instance, the Tribunal de Grande Instance, the Direction départementale de la protection des populations, mainly concerned with health and consumer affairs. As a run-around, I found this rather exhausting, and an incipient health risk! 
I hope the information above will help.
With kind regards,
Adam Warren (IanDhu - 41189) ▲ Collapse
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Abraham Abukar
United States
Local time: 00:51
Member (2005)
English to Somali
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| Looks/sounds suspicious! | Jan 19, 2011 |
I got an email from similar domain.
Here is the header of the email, you can search.
From Zak Orel Tue Jan 18 23:22:00 2011
Zak Orel
Dears,
We have project need to be translated and need your help, Please send your best rate if you interested to work with us.
Kind Regards,
Zack Orel
| | | | alcoforado
Local time: 01:51
English to Portuguese
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| Zak Orel again | Feb 3, 2011 |
I got an e-mail from this Zak Orel too.
Was halfway through when I got suspicious because his e-mail account was deleted.
Now I just got the same job again (but differently formatted) from a company with a domain registered today.
It's translation-company.us
Huge change it's a scam, and also a big chance it's the same people as global-translation.org
| | | | | What kind of job was it? | Feb 5, 2011 |
alcoforado wrote:
I got an e-mail from this Zak Orel too.
Was halfway through when I got suspicious because his e-mail account was deleted.
Now I just got the same job again (but differently formatted) from a company with a domain registered today.
It's translation-company.us
Huge change it's a scam, and also a big chance it's the same people as global-translation.org
Hello,
Was it, by any chance, a "We need to translate about 82000 words" or similar ad/subject?
As for the URL you posted, there is an ad with that same URL on translationdirectory - and coincidentally, there's an ad by "Zak Orell" too, "Posted on Saturday, 22 Jan 2011, 05:21:46".
A few days ago, when I first checked the website you mentioned, its whole template and contents (minus the company logo) were directly 'lifted' from a legitimate agency registered with ProZ. I sent them an email letting them know about this 'incident', and now I discover that site has misteriously and completely changed its appearance. And again, template and contents match (almost entirely) those from another website...
You can easily verify that by googling some of that content...
Is there absolutely no way of preventing this? Or at least have some kind of, I don't know, 'early warning system'?
Regards,
Mirko
p.s. I already saw the ProZ wiki page about scams, but it's outdated (afaics), not easy to find (nor advertised), and not suited to deal with such quick, 'volatile' and resourceful scammers.
| | | | | This fraud is active again | Jul 5, 2011 |
Main-OZ wrote: alcoforado wrote:
I got an e-mail from this Zak Orel too.
Was halfway through when I got suspicious because his e-mail account was deleted.
Now I just got the same job again (but differently formatted) from a company with a domain registered today.
It's translation-company.us
Huge change it's a scam, and also a big chance it's the same people as global-translation.org Hello, Was it, by any chance, a "We need to translate about 82000 words" or similar ad/subject? As for the URL you posted, there is an ad with that same URL on translationdirectory - and coincidentally, there's an ad by "Zak Orell" too, "Posted on Saturday, 22 Jan 2011, 05:21:46". A few days ago, when I first checked the website you mentioned, its whole template and contents (minus the company logo) were directly 'lifted' from a legitimate agency registered with ProZ. I sent them an email letting them know about this 'incident', and now I discover that site has misteriously and completely changed its appearance. And again, template and contents match (almost entirely) those from another website... You can easily verify that by googling some of that content... Is there absolutely no way of preventing this? Or at least have some kind of, I don't know, 'early warning system'? Regards, Mirko p.s. I already saw the ProZ wiki page about scams, but it's outdated (afaics), not easy to find (nor advertised), and not suited to deal with such quick, 'volatile' and resourceful scammers.
Hi all,
This fraud is active again. Please check this link:
http://www.proz.com/forum/scams/190147-the_same_scam_reported_now_english_spanish-page2.html
BR,
Mohamed Kamel
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Aude Sylvain
France
Local time: 06:51
English to French
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| The scam is back - Willy Dubber | Jan 8, 2012 |
Hello,
just to let you that this scam is around again.
Sender "Willy Dubber", sample document provided: "Everyday Health Guide".
The request I received was for EN>FR.
The wording of the email is the same as usual:
I am a private investor, I work on short time businesses.
My address is ..
XXX
Nottingham
Uk
Now, I guess you have an idea of whom you about to deal with, attached is a part of the document...... See more Hello,
just to let you that this scam is around again.
Sender "Willy Dubber", sample document provided: "Everyday Health Guide".
The request I received was for EN>FR.
The wording of the email is the same as usual:
I am a private investor, I work on short time businesses.
My address is ..
XXX
Nottingham
Uk
Now, I guess you have an idea of whom you about to deal with, attached is a part of the document...
Best regards
Aude
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| | | | Chunyi Chen
United States
Local time: 21:51
English to Chinese
| I received the same email from the same name requesting Eng>Chinese | Jan 9, 2012 |
Hi Aude,
I received the same email yesterday requesting English into Chinese translation services with the same Word file you mentioned and for a moment I thought it was for real. Then I looked up his address on Google Map and couldn't find the address on the Map. His English is not good, which was another reason that made me suspicious.
Thank you for posting the scam information on the forum. I was wondering where and whether I should report it. I wasn't 100% sure that he... See more Hi Aude,
I received the same email yesterday requesting English into Chinese translation services with the same Word file you mentioned and for a moment I thought it was for real. Then I looked up his address on Google Map and couldn't find the address on the Map. His English is not good, which was another reason that made me suspicious.
Thank you for posting the scam information on the forum. I was wondering where and whether I should report it. I wasn't 100% sure that he was fake, so I didn't want to take further action should this person actually be someone that needs translation services.
Chun-yi
[Edited at 2012-01-09 00:23 GMT]
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| | | | | Willy Dubber | Jan 25, 2012 |
I´ve also had that email come through for Spanish to English translation of the Health Everyday Guide from this scammer Willy Dubber.
The term "short time businesses" didn´t sound right, and the address provided didn´t match either. I had my suspicions and luckily I found this forum to confirm it is a scam.
Thanks to all of you for posting your comments, it was extremely helpful.
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