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Vanda Nissen 
Australia
Local time: 10:47
Member (2008)
English to Russian
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Samuel Murray wrote:
What would "2/340" mean in Melbourne?
Unit 2, building 340 but as our colleague from Melbourne has pointed out, there is no buidling 340, instead there is a building 338-352. It is quite common in Australia to have several numbers for one large building, especially in CBD.
| | | | Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:47
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Katarzyna Slowikova wrote:
A reasonable person wouldn't take an offense, quite contrary, imho. Any answer you get back is more material to analyze.
Katarzyna, you're right of course, and your comment is a more useful contribution to the discussion than my own rather tongue-in-cheek post.
Dan
| | | | | 1234567890...or what should I write here.... | Mar 18, 2016 |
Dan Lucas wrote: Katarzyna Slowikova wrote:
A reasonable person wouldn't take an offense, quite contrary, imho. Any answer you get back is more material to analyze. Katarzyna, you're right of course, and your comment is a more useful contribution to the discussion than my own rather tongue-in-cheek post. Dan
Oh don't be so apologetic, we don't have to be serious all the time, do we... and a conversation with a scammer may turn out to be quite fun, let me post this again:
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_to_spam_email
So if you have too much time on your hands you can use it to gather material for a sketch.
| | | | Chris Ellison
Spain
Local time: 02:47
Member (2013)
Spanish to English
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Well, I chuckled. )
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| Ask for invoicing details first | Mar 18, 2016 |
mag013 wrote: 'Do you have something like a VAT number in Australia?' Yes. It's called the Goods and Services Tax or GST. But not everyone has to be registered for this. A more pertinent number is the Australian Business Number or ABN. All traders and companies must have one for tax reasons. ABN searches can be conducted at http://abr.business.gov.au
The point was not the tax but some kind of business ID, like this ABN. I suppose it's a mandatory on an invoice, right? I always ask new customers for all invoicing details in advance and I think it's a more realistic check than asking them for even a partial prepayment. Unless the registry works very differently in Australia then here in Europe, you can see whether the client is real, whether they're what they claim to be and have an intention to pay you at all.
It seems I'm not that frequent target of scammers, but I was able to filter out one agency in this way. They chose to ignore my request, instead continuing sending me some phony job requests. Then of course, you create an email filter and are done with them.
[Edited at 2016-03-18 13:32 GMT]
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