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Scam request for translation Daniel Brzezinski
스레드 게시자: Margreet Mohle
Margreet Mohle
Margreet Mohle  Identity Verified
캐나다
Local time: 03:21
회원(2010)
프랑스어에서 네덜란드어
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Apr 26, 2021

Hi all,

Just a low-level scam. Got contacted by a Daniel (in later email identified as Daniel Brzezinski) via Proz. with request for a quote on the translation of a wedding caterer's menu (Daniel et Daniel, out of Toronto). Catering company is legit and got back on my inquiry within minutes - request for translation was a scam.

Key points: different email address and offer to pay 50% upfront by certified cheque - really? For a 2000 word translation...

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Hi all,

Just a low-level scam. Got contacted by a Daniel (in later email identified as Daniel Brzezinski) via Proz. with request for a quote on the translation of a wedding caterer's menu (Daniel et Daniel, out of Toronto). Catering company is legit and got back on my inquiry within minutes - request for translation was a scam.

Key points: different email address and offer to pay 50% upfront by certified cheque - really? For a 2000 word translation...

Just one request, fairly easily spotted, but if it can help anyone...

Take care,

Margreet ▲ Collapse


expressisverbis
Liviu-Lee Roth
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Hristina Dojčinova
Dalia Nour
 
Hristina Dojčinova
Hristina Dojčinova  Identity Verified
캐나다
Local time: 03:21
영어에서 마케도니아어
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Scam request for translation by Daniel Brzezinski Apr 27, 2021

Ditto!

In my case it was a request for translation into Macedonian for the same document plus a Briefing Paper on Loot boxes in video games...

Margreet, did you respond to "Daniel Brzezinski" at all?

Regards,

Hristina


Margreet Mohle wrote:

Hi all,

Just a low-level scam. Got contacted by a Daniel (in later email identified as Daniel Brzezinski) via Proz. with request for a quote on the translation of a wedding caterer's menu (Daniel et Daniel, out of Toronto). Catering company is legit and got back on my inquiry within minutes - request for translation was a scam.

Key points: different email address and offer to pay 50% upfront by certified cheque - really? For a 2000 word translation...

Just one request, fairly easily spotted, but if it can help anyone...

Take care,

Margreet


 
Adrian MM.
Adrian MM.
오스트리아
Local time: 09:21
스페인어에서 영어
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what's in a name - misuse of famous ones Apr 28, 2021

The late Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński had been a respected Polish-American adviser to President Jimmy Carter during the Cold War. Hijacking of his surname ought to have set off alarm bells, as should combinations and permutations of the names of famous sportsmen and women, especially football stars, but who may have faded from public view,
 
Adieu
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우크라이나어에서 영어
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It's a generic Polish last name May 1, 2021

Adrian MM. wrote:

The late Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński had been a respected Polish-American adviser to President Jimmy Carter during the Cold War. Hijacking of his surname ought to have set off alarm bells, as should combinations and permutations of the names of famous sportsmen and women, especially football stars, but who may have faded from public view,


Other than a combination of consonants memorably incomprehensible to the Western ear, there's really nothing special about it.

Just another birch-themed Eastern European last name.... from a region chock-full of birch.
 
Katarzyna Slowikova
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독일
Local time: 09:21
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And your point is...? May 4, 2021

Adieu wrote:

Other than a combination of consonants memorably incomprehensible to the Western ear, there's really nothing special about it.

Just another birch-themed Eastern European last name.... from a region chock-full of birch.


So we should believe a namesake of the famous Brzezinski is genuinely requesting a translation here?

Scammers often use names of famous people because they're dumb and therefore unable to come up with an ordinary name in the original language. Where they try, the results are largely ridiculous (plenty of examples for this on www.translator-scammers.com).
 
Margreet Mohle
Margreet Mohle  Identity Verified
캐나다
Local time: 03:21
회원(2010)
프랑스어에서 네덜란드어
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주제 스타터
Not after getting the documents May 4, 2021

[quote]Hristina Dojčinova wrote:

Ditto!

In my case it was a request for translation into Macedonian for the same document plus a Briefing Paper on Loot boxes in video games...

Margreet, did you respond to "Daniel Brzezinski" at all?

Regards,

Hristina


Hi Hristina,

I responded to the Proz. message (which just asked for availability). After getting the documents, no. I also got the Briefing Paper. The combination of the two set off alarm bells, as well as the offer for advance payment with a certified cheque.

They didn't contact me again.
 


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