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Another gmail scam
스레드 게시자: John Fossey
John Fossey
John Fossey  Identity Verified
캐나다
Local time: 20:58
회원(2008)
프랑스어에서 영어
+ ...
Mar 20, 2019

I just received the following email from lindaleo080 @ gmail.com:

I'm contacting you in regard to an french content document with
11,643 words (44 Pages). I need this document translated to,English 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.
Thank you.
Best regards

It's identical to the scam described at:
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I just received the following email from lindaleo080 @ gmail.com:

I'm contacting you in regard to an french content document with
11,643 words (44 Pages). I need this document translated to,English 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.
Thank you.
Best regards

It's identical to the scam described at:

https://aatia.org/same-tired-scam-message-making-the-rounds-again/ ▲ Collapse


Liviu-Lee Roth
Nema Alaraby
Kristopher Brame
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Kristopher Brame
Kristopher Brame  Identity Verified
미국
Local time: 20:58
독일어에서 영어
+ ...
Same happened to me Mar 20, 2019

I got an email from her on Monday. I thought it was a scam because of the grammatical errors but thought perhaps her English just was not good. I wrote her back saying that I would need 50% of the payment up front on PayPal. She proceeded to send me a document in Spanish (I guess she forgot that she was originally looking for a FR > EN translation) and wrote "I'm proposing a certified bank draft, a cashier check or bank certified check".

Do you think the scammer was looking for a fr... See more
I got an email from her on Monday. I thought it was a scam because of the grammatical errors but thought perhaps her English just was not good. I wrote her back saying that I would need 50% of the payment up front on PayPal. She proceeded to send me a document in Spanish (I guess she forgot that she was originally looking for a FR > EN translation) and wrote "I'm proposing a certified bank draft, a cashier check or bank certified check".

Do you think the scammer was looking for a free translation or phishing for banking information? Or am I at any sort of risk from looking at the document they sent me? ▲ Collapse
 
John Fossey
John Fossey  Identity Verified
캐나다
Local time: 20:58
회원(2008)
프랑스어에서 영어
+ ...
주제 스타터
Classic advance payment scam Mar 20, 2019

No, they will try to get you to agree to be paid with a paper document such as a bank draft, send you too much and ask you to refund the difference.

Then a month later it will be found that the draft is a forgery, and you're out of pocket.

Robert Forstag
Kristopher Brame
Vadim Kadyrov
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Daryo
 
Emi Lecret
Emi Lecret
프랑스
Local time: 02:58
영어에서 프랑스어
Same offer from SPA>FRE Mar 21, 2019

Dear colleagues,

I have just received the same offer today from SPA>FRE. Obviously a scam... as they sent you the request from FRE>ENG. Thank you for posting.

"I'm contacting you in regard to an Spanish content document with
11,643 words (49 Pages). I need this document translated to,French 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.
Thank you.
Best regards"
 


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