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Possible scam Spanish translation project offer from United Arab Emirates.
Thread poster: yugoslavia
yugoslavia United States Local time: 20:17 English to Spanish + ...
Nov 12, 2022
Dear colleagues from Proz.com,
I hope you are well.
I’m writing to you because I received an email message around three days ago offering me a Spanish translation project from Dubai. The name of the person is Henry Baker.
I’m suspecting that this email message could be a scam. I will be glad to copy and paste the copy of the email messages for you. I want to verify if the email message is legitimate or if someone is trying to do a scam to me.
I’m writing to you because I received an email message around three days ago offering me a Spanish translation project from Dubai. The name of the person is Henry Baker.
I’m suspecting that this email message could be a scam. I will be glad to copy and paste the copy of the email messages for you. I want to verify if the email message is legitimate or if someone is trying to do a scam to me.
Here is the copy of the first email message:
Can i submit my document for translation from English to
Spanish? I want it submitted before December 10th.Please
respond back if you can meet up with this deadline. Thank
you
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Author: Henry
Thanks for your help and cooperation, Spanish native speakers, feel free to write to me in Spanish.
Best regards,
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Natalie Poland Local time: 02:17 Member (2002) English to Russian + ...
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As it has been repeated many times before...
Nov 13, 2022
...nobody will be able "to verify if the email message is legitimate" if nothing is known about the sender: no email address, no message headers, no IP, no information if this has been sent through ProZ.com or other site. Without all this information posting in this forum is just a waste of time.
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Daryo United Kingdom Local time: 01:17 Serbian to English + ...
What's wrong?
Nov 13, 2022
I can't see anything wrong so far - nor anything proven right.
Plenty of businesses are based in Dubai but operate everywhere else - so nothing wrong a priori with getting an inquiry from Dubai.
Do some due diligence - including talking on the phone with this potential client?
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