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Another scam from the same persons
Thread poster: Elías Sauza
Elías Sauza
Elías Sauza  Identity Verified
Mexico
Local time: 13:37
Member (2002)
English to Spanish
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Dec 28, 2012

I just received this massive email through my proz email account:

From: [email protected]

Hello,

We have project need to be translated from English into Spanish, Please send your best rate if you available.

Word Count: 5000 words

Kind Regards,
Julia



HTH

Elías
 
keshab
keshab  Identity Verified
Local time: 01:07
Member (2006)
English to Bengali
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SITE LOCALIZER
Professional hazard Dec 28, 2012

Just ignore it.
 
Paweł Hamerski
Paweł Hamerski
Poland
Local time: 20:37
English to Polish
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I don't see any 'we' Dec 28, 2012

should be the proper answer
 
Nelida Kreer
Nelida Kreer  Identity Verified
Local time: 14:37
English to Spanish
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Obviously a scam Dec 28, 2012

keshab wrote:

Just ignore it.


I received one too early today, from the same mysterious Julia, but not from the yahoo mail server but from an apparent business mail address, native-speaker.org, and addressed to "native speaker", not through my ProZ profile but as a direct email. I googled them and it seems to be a legit Middle East agency, but then on the other hand, the mail seemed to have come via yahoo.com (looking at the chain of communication that you can see in gmail by toggling "message in its original form". And there is no way to ascertain whether this Julia person does indeed belong to this agency at all. Be that as it may, the text of the email didn't smell nor look right to my suspicious nose. No information about the company, or who they are, or the subject of the translation or any other details that a bona fides outsourcer would indicate. So I simply deleted it, just as keshab suggested to proceed.
 


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