Has anyone worked for James Costa Email:[email protected]?
Thread poster: Clara Nino
Clara Nino
Clara Nino
Canada
Local time: 03:43
Spanish to English
+ ...
Oct 11, 2016

I received the email I copy here:

"Hello,

I found your information on American translators
association and am interested in the service of a translator, i have
an article to be translated from English into your language Spanish
,The article contains 30 pages, please let me know your availability
and the rate you work on kindly reply to my direct email address ,

Email:[email protected]

Cole."

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I received the email I copy here:

"Hello,

I found your information on American translators
association and am interested in the service of a translator, i have
an article to be translated from English into your language Spanish
,The article contains 30 pages, please let me know your availability
and the rate you work on kindly reply to my direct email address ,

Email:[email protected]

Cole."

Has anyone received something similar?

I have a funny feeling about this project.

Thanks in advance for your time!!

Clara
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Katarzyna Slowikova
Katarzyna Slowikova  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 08:43
English to Czech
+ ...
An advance payment scam Oct 11, 2016

See this:
http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/forumthread27227.htm

Exactly same wording, apart from the 1st sentence.


 
Jeff Whittaker
Jeff Whittaker  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 03:43
Member (2002)
Spanish to English
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gmail = delete Oct 11, 2016

gmail = delete

 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 08:43
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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Seconded: gmail = delete Oct 11, 2016

LegalTransform wrote:
gmail = delete

I completely agree!


 
Sylvie Chartier
Sylvie Chartier  Identity Verified
Canada
English to French
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Same here Oct 11, 2016

I have received the same email from 4 different email addresses.

The last one I replied:

Hello xxx,

If you require my professional services, please write from a professional email address.

Sincerely...

Normally I trash anything from Gmail addresses I don't know but after the 4th time, I got angry and replied.

Have a wonderful day!

Sylvie


 
Liviu-Lee Roth
Liviu-Lee Roth
United States
Local time: 03:43
Romanian to English
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If you want to have fun and see how it works Oct 11, 2016

agree to their terms, copy/paste a random text and send it together with your invoice to the „client”. After a couple days you will receive a well-made fake check in an amount larger than you invoice.

have fun,

Lee

PS. I have a whole collection of fake checks.


 
Clara Nino
Clara Nino
Canada
Local time: 03:43
Spanish to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Thanks!! Oct 11, 2016

Thank you to all of you, I really appreciate your answers!! I know now that my gut feeling was right!

Regards,

Clara


 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:43
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Fakes Oct 12, 2016

liviu roth wrote:

agree to their terms, copy/paste a random text and send it together with your invoice to the „client”. After a couple days you will receive a well-made fake check in an amount larger than you invoice.

have fun,

Lee

PS. I have a whole collection of fake checks.


I would be interested to see a couple of these if you have time to scan them and post them here.


 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 08:43
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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LOL! Oct 12, 2016

liviu roth wrote:
PS. I have a whole collection of fake checks.

Way to go, Lee! Never tried, but I might in the future, just for the hell (sorry) of it!


 
GalileoTrans
GalileoTrans
United States
Local time: 03:43
English to French
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Same guy Oct 12, 2016

Received exact same email from "James Cole 2016"
I asked to see the document before providing a full quote, knowing the whole thing was scammy .... he sent me an article written 40 years ago by a discredited journalist.
I've seen better scams.


 


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