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Has anyone heard of Lumina Library?
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Kristin Høgsve-Mouton
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Jan 14

I've been contacted by this platform supposed to be based in California. They're asking for a 170 000 words translation with payment upon delivery [:D] I think it's a scam. Any experiences to share?
 
Zea_Mays
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Italy
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If it's the .org site... Jan 14

it's a scam, and you should report the site to their ISP.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TranslationStudies/comments/1i0a9zc/is_lumina_library_legit/

Registrar (NB, this is not the scammer, it's the company that registered the address for the scammers):
HOSTINGER operations, UAB
Registered On: 2024-12-21
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it's a scam, and you should report the site to their ISP.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TranslationStudies/comments/1i0a9zc/is_lumina_library_legit/

Registrar (NB, this is not the scammer, it's the company that registered the address for the scammers):
HOSTINGER operations, UAB
Registered On: 2024-12-21
Expires On: 2025-12-21
Updated On: 2024-12-26
(from https://www.whois.com/whois/luminalibrary.org)

Abuse can be reported to
HOSTINGER operations, UAB
Švitrigailos str. 34, Vilnius 03230 Lithuania
https://www.hostinger.com



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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Zea_Mays
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Italy
Local time: 20:17
English to German
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Postal address is the same as for the Insight Bridge Library (another scam) Jan 14

Just look it up on Google.

Josephine Cassar
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Thayenga
 
Zea_Mays
Zea_Mays  Identity Verified
Italy
Local time: 20:17
English to German
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same registrar Jan 14

Zea_Mays wrote:

Registrar (NB, this is not the scammer, it's the company that registered the address for the scammers):
HOSTINGER operations, UAB
Registered On: 2024-12-21
Expires On: 2025-12-21
Updated On: 2024-12-26
(from https://www.whois.com/whois/luminalibrary.org)


Hm, the same registrar appears when looking up the Inside Bridge Library url: https://www.whois.com/whois/insightbl.com
The website can be reported to https://privacyprotect.org/
 
Andrus Lauringson
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Estonia
Local time: 21:17
Member (2022)
English to Estonian
Well Jan 14

At least they are not modest: when a less than a month old site claims it has "5m+ completed projects" and "1K+ total job posts"... but when you open the list, the result is... three (one of which is the scam you mentioned).

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
jparis (X)
jparis (X)
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Russian to English
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cloned scam site Jan 15

Zea_Mays wrote:

Zea_Mays wrote:

Registrar (NB, this is not the scammer, it's the company that registered the address for the scammers):
HOSTINGER operations, UAB
Registered On: 2024-12-21
Expires On: 2025-12-21
Updated On: 2024-12-26
(from https://www.whois.com/whois/luminalibrary.org)


Hm, the same registrar appears when looking up the Inside Bridge Library url: https://www.whois.com/whois/insightbl.com
The website can be reported to https://privacyprotect.org/


Yep, Inside Bridge is just a cloned scam site. Same scammers, different site so they can target more people before being called out/blacklisted.

It's a common tactic with these scammers, they made lots of cloned sites with very similar details then use these to target marks to scam.
 


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