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Scammers requesting to buy Systran language software
Thread poster: Nathalie Reis
Nathalie Reis
Nathalie Reis  Identity Verified
Local time: 07:06
English to French
Aug 13, 2008

A new agency has contacted me and will supply me with regular work if I buy the Systran Business Translator software from them (at a very good discount!). What do you think? Has anyone got experience with Systran? What do you recommend?

Thanks you for your replies.


 
avsie (X)
avsie (X)  Identity Verified
Local time: 08:06
English to French
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Possible scam Aug 13, 2008

See a recent topic on this subjet. Looks to be the same 'offer'...

 
Nathalie Reis
Nathalie Reis  Identity Verified
Local time: 07:06
English to French
TOPIC STARTER
Thank you Aug 13, 2008

Thank you so much Marie-Claude, I'm sure it's a scam now. Same procedure, having to download Yahoo messenger for an interview, same discount to systran price, same everything...I have looked at their website and they are in the US and have an office in Nigeria and the guy I was in touch with is the guy in Nigeria, all very dodgy.

Thank you so much again!!!


 
Jeff Allen
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France
Local time: 08:06
Multiplelanguages
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discounted Systran Business Translator v6 resold via agency seems like scam Jan 24, 2009

Having worked for Systran and having used Systran software for many years, I have given my view on this at:
http://www.proz.com/forum/business_issues/113812-company_asks_for_systrans.html#1038985

and also at the link provided about about where this was also discussed.

It sounds very bizarre to me too.

Jeff


 
Margherita Facchini
Margherita Facchini  Identity Verified
Italy
English to Italian
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They contacted me today! Feb 9, 2009

Hi all,
I was contacted today by John Francis .
www.wordsolutions.com
P:6462916552
F:1-414-345-2346

Same scheme. They offered me a very high rate and continuous work if I buy Systran. Their website already looked very dodgy, as well as the fact that the guy had a Yahoo account.

Thanks very much for making me aware of this scam!

Margherita


 
Nathalie Reis
Nathalie Reis  Identity Verified
Local time: 07:06
English to French
TOPIC STARTER
Glad I could help! Feb 9, 2009

The forum is very useful indeed! Perhaps there should be a sub-forum called warnings against agencies, scam etc

 
viola76 (X)
viola76 (X)
Sweden
Local time: 08:06
Swedish to English
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Thanks Mar 4, 2009

I have been contacted by the same person, I just realized. As I new in the freelance field, I got this e-mail offer of regular translation work at a very high rate which I to begin with thought to be a bit weird. Still I until now had almost made up my mind to get the software anyhow and to take the chance anyhow. Until I saw these posts.

Thank you very much all who reported this.


 
Eduard Pascariu
Eduard Pascariu  Identity Verified
Local time: 09:06
Romanian to German
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Systran scam Mar 14, 2009

Watch out, the guy is using a new e-mail address and pretends to represent a different company now
[email protected]
Webnode Translation
www.webnodetranslation.com
234-345-234578

here the details:

We can pay you by Bank transfer.As for Systran we require the business version and the cost is
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Watch out, the guy is using a new e-mail address and pretends to represent a different company now
[email protected]
Webnode Translation
www.webnodetranslation.com
234-345-234578

here the details:

We can pay you by Bank transfer.As for Systran we require the business version and the cost is $389 you can check www.systran.co.uk for details.Because of this project we decided to offer for translators for just $290(discount rate) and we can send it to you once you make payment by Paypal or Western Union.We"ll send it to you take you through a 24-48 hours tutorial then get you started.I look foward to work with you.Thanks
Regards,
John
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Eduard Pascariu
Eduard Pascariu  Identity Verified
Local time: 09:06
Romanian to German
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Systran scam Mar 14, 2009

And this is the paypal account they'd like your money in)
[email protected]


 
Blanka Salkova
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Czech Republic
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Member (2007)
English to Czech
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indeed Mar 17, 2009

Eduard Pascariu wrote:

Watch out, the guy is using a new e-mail address and pretends to represent a different company now
[email protected]
Webnode Translation
www.webnodetranslation.com
234-345-234578

here the details:

We can pay you by Bank transfer.As for Systran we require the business version and the cost is $389 you can check www.systran.co.uk for details.Because of this project we decided to offer for translators for just $290(discount rate) and we can send it to you once you make payment by Paypal or Western Union.We"ll send it to you take you through a 24-48 hours tutorial then get you started.I look foward to work with you.Thanks
Regards,
John


They tried it on me today.


 
Hiroki Minaki
Hiroki Minaki  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 00:06
Japanese to English
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Too good to be true?! Mar 18, 2009

Hi everyone,

This guy is now expanding his "marketing efforts" to the Japanese translator segment.

Here's the first email I received:
==quote==
If you"re a hardworking English to Japanese Translator and you"ll like to
work with us on our current project.Let me know as soon as possible then i'll
give you details of the job.
Thanks
We
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Hi everyone,

This guy is now expanding his "marketing efforts" to the Japanese translator segment.

Here's the first email I received:
==quote==
If you"re a hardworking English to Japanese Translator and you"ll like to
work with us on our current project.Let me know as soon as possible then i'll
give you details of the job.
Thanks
Webnode Translation
www..webnodetranslation.com
Ph:234-345-234578
Fax:1-542-234-23456
==end of quote==

..., and then the next one, after I asked for "details".
==quote==
I"ll briefly give you details about the job then you can
choose to continue or not.We have a long term project for
translations and to topic areas
are:Business,Medical,Legal,Technical,Humanities,History,Arts,Politics,Economics,I.T
e.t,c
we pay about 0.16 euro per word source.and we can offer as much as 3000
words 4 days in a week depending on how much work you can handle.And because of
the kind of companies and the kind of project we are doing.We also require that
you get Systran software..Even as you start work and we can send one for you at
very good discount rate or you can get it by your self from a shop close to
you.We make payments by Western Union,Paypal and Direct bank deposit.I"ll be expecting your feedback on this so we an start the
process.Thanks
Regards,
John
WEBNODE TRANSLATION
==end of quote==

I especially like the part where he offers to "briefly give you details". Ha Ha!!
"brief detail" would be a tough one to translate. Perhaps we should put it on KudoZ!!

Anyway, as they say, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

Hiroki

[Edited at 2009-03-18 18:17 GMT]

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Cinzia Schlicksup
Cinzia Schlicksup  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 02:06
English to Italian
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The guy is expanding into the Italian market too. Mar 19, 2009

I received the same message today too from the same John Francis:

If you"re a hardworking English to Italian Translator and you"ll like to
work with us on our current project.Let me know as soon as possible then i'll
give you details of the job.
Thanks
Webnode Translation
www.webnodetranslation.com
Ph:234-345-234578
Fax:1-414-245-24588
Web
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I received the same message today too from the same John Francis:

If you"re a hardworking English to Italian Translator and you"ll like to
work with us on our current project.Let me know as soon as possible then i'll
give you details of the job.
Thanks
Webnode Translation
www.webnodetranslation.com
Ph:234-345-234578
Fax:1-414-245-24588
Webnode Translations

He sent the message to me and to a long list of Italian translators whose addressed showed in the email address area and therefore were visible to me.
The www.webnodetranslation.com website does not exist when I googled it.
Beware!!

Cinzia Gallia Schlicksup
ItaEnglish Translator
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Pietro Speciale
Pietro Speciale  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 08:06
English to Italian
+ ...
I am another "victim" Mar 19, 2009

Hi everyone,

here is another victim of this guy's "marketing efforts". First of all, I would like to thank Teresa Gomez who has sent me the link for this discussion, and has advised me to read it before answering this gentleman's message. I also thank all of you for your comments.
Of course, I have not answered his e-mail. Before reading Teresa's message and your discussions, I decided to ignore it, because this gentleman's approach was not professional at all: no salutation,
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Hi everyone,

here is another victim of this guy's "marketing efforts". First of all, I would like to thank Teresa Gomez who has sent me the link for this discussion, and has advised me to read it before answering this gentleman's message. I also thank all of you for your comments.
Of course, I have not answered his e-mail. Before reading Teresa's message and your discussions, I decided to ignore it, because this gentleman's approach was not professional at all: no salutation, no personal signature, and the names of the other recipients where all shown. This was enough for me, for not answering. Now I am reading the rest about him. I will inform all my colleagues about this scam.

Regards,
Pietro
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Gina W
Gina W
United States
Local time: 03:06
Member (2003)
French to English
I got an email today from "Webnode Translation" Apr 20, 2009

Eduard Pascariu wrote:

Watch out, the guy is using a new e-mail address and pretends to represent a different company now
[email protected]
Webnode Translation
www.webnodetranslation.com
234-345-234578

here the details:

We can pay you by Bank transfer.As for Systran we require the business version and the cost is $389 you can check www.systran.co.uk for details.Because of this project we decided to offer for translators for just $290(discount rate) and we can send it to you once you make payment by Paypal or Western Union.We"ll send it to you take you through a 24-48 hours tutorial then get you started.I look foward to work with you.Thanks
Regards,
John


I right away did a Google search and ended up here - so thanks for posting this.


 
Isabelle Berquin
Isabelle Berquin  Identity Verified
Local time: 03:06
Member (2007)
English to French
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Me too! Apr 22, 2009

I also received this email today, and after reading the above I'll be sure not to reply.
Thanks for the heads up everyone!


 
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