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Julio A. Juncal
Julio A. Juncal  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 03:38
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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Suspicious translation job offers Jan 2, 2020

In the last few weeks, I've been receiving some job offers that appear suspicious through contacts using my email as posted in Proz. Example:

Ruth via ProZ.com
Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:25 PM (2 days ago)

to me
A ProZ.com user visited your ProZ.com profile and sent the following message.

Author: Ruth
[NOTE: The author is not a registered ProZ.com user or was not logged in when sending this message.]
Author's IP address: 192.200.158.90... See more
In the last few weeks, I've been receiving some job offers that appear suspicious through contacts using my email as posted in Proz. Example:

Ruth via ProZ.com
Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:25 PM (2 days ago)

to me
A ProZ.com user visited your ProZ.com profile and sent the following message.

Author: Ruth
[NOTE: The author is not a registered ProZ.com user or was not logged in when sending this message.]
Author's IP address: 192.200.158.90

-----------

Hello, I'm contacting you in regard to an English content

document worth 11,638 words (44 Pages). I need this

document translated into Spanish. I would like to know if
you

are interested and available to get this done for me.

Please get back to me as soon as you can via email

([email protected]). Thank you.

Best regard,
Ruth

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I usually ask about payment practices and usually get told that payment is via cashier check. There is only a first name and no address. I have rejected all offers. ▲ Collapse


Patricia Leon Fedak
 
Natalie
Natalie  Identity Verified
Poland
Local time: 09:38
Member (2002)
English to Russian
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Nigerian scam Jan 2, 2020

Hi Julio,

This "Ruth" is a Nigerian scammer (the real IP is 105.112.31.3) who is quite busy with sending these emails. He changes IPs promptly so it is hard to block him completely.

Never answer any such messages!

Natalia

Yolanda Broad
 
Robert Rietvelt
Robert Rietvelt  Identity Verified
Local time: 09:38
Member (2006)
Spanish to Dutch
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Scam! Jan 2, 2020

Julio A. Juncal wrote:

In the last few weeks, I've been receiving some job offers that appear suspicious through contacts using my email as posted in Proz. Example:

Ruth via ProZ.com
Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 7:25 PM (2 days ago)

to me
A ProZ.com user visited your ProZ.com profile and sent the following message.

Author: Ruth
[NOTE: The author is not a registered ProZ.com user or was not logged in when sending this message.]
Author's IP address: 192.200.158.90

-----------

Hello, I'm contacting you in regard to an English content

document worth 11,638 words (44 Pages). I need this

document translated into Spanish. I would like to know if
you

are interested and available to get this done for me.

Please get back to me as soon as you can via email

([email protected]). Thank you.

Best regard,
Ruth

---

I usually ask about payment practices and usually get told that payment is via cashier check. There is only a first name and no address. I have rejected all offers.


The +11.000 words again.

See also: https://www.proz.com/forum/scams/339935-why_are_all_documents_from_scammers_approx_11600_words.html

Patricia Leon Fedak
Yolanda Broad
 
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