Scammers pretending to represent Avanta Translating
Thread poster: Avanta
Avanta
Avanta
Local time: 04:01
English to Russian
May 6, 2016

Dear colleagues!
Our company became a victim of fraud. Fraudsters offer translation jobs on behalf of Avanta Translating’s managers using our digital signature and contact information. Once translators send back the completed work, fraudsters disappear without paying. The only warning sign is their email address: [email protected]. Please note that we use only corporate email addresses ending with @avanta-translatin
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Dear colleagues!
Our company became a victim of fraud. Fraudsters offer translation jobs on behalf of Avanta Translating’s managers using our digital signature and contact information. Once translators send back the completed work, fraudsters disappear without paying. The only warning sign is their email address: [email protected]. Please note that we use only corporate email addresses ending with @avanta-translating.com. Be careful and always check email addresses where requests originate from. If you have any doubt, please, contact us by phone, Skype, ICQ, Viber or in the contact section of our website http://avanta-translating.com/about/news/news_63.html

Best regards,
Avanta Translating team
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Elif Baykara Narbay
 
Lingvoexpert
Lingvoexpert
Russian Federation
Local time: 09:01
Same story May 16, 2016

Dear colleagues!
The same story happened to our company, those fraudsters have been sending such messages to translators from May 9th approximately. Please be careful, we use only our site-related e-mails (*@lingvoexpert.com).

Best regards,
Lingvoexpert LLC


 


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