jyuan_us wrote:
Andres & Leticia Enjuto wrote:
Walter Landesman wrote:
I often receive this kind of emails too.
I take them as young translators looking for a job, offering their servvices to senior translators. Why consider they spam?
Walter, we usually receive 5-10 e-mails a day like these. They all come from gmail addresses, almost all of them begin with "Dear Sir/Madam" and their formatting, fonts, etc. is very similar. Besides, it is not uncommon for the same "applicant" to e-mail you all week, including week-ends.
You can see how it works here:
http://www.jrdias.com/jrd-translator-scammers.htm Regards,
Andrés
jyuan_us, if you check the link I provided (http://www.jrdias.com/jrd-translator-scammers.htm), you will see the following explanation (among plenty of detailed data):
"It's very simple, indeed: The scammers STEAL legitimate resumes from professional translators and change the names (SOMETIMES) and emails (ALWAYS);
[…] Then, they go online, trying to lure bona fide, but unwary, clients with their "translation skills". […] scammers never tell their clients-victims that they are, in fact, dealing with an impersonator.
If a job lands on their desk, they most surely deliver a Google translation or send the job to somebody (even a real translator), which is either not paid or just paid peanuts. Or they just deliver nothing...
Only when the clients receive the scammer's invoice they find out that they are to settle the payment to some unidentified PayPal address or to a bank account belonging to Palestinian (or other nationality) individuals they never heard of. And when the client requests a positive proof of identity, the scammers initiate all sorts of threats.
Beware! Some of these scammers have their own fake profiles on translation forums under the name they use on "their" fake CVs and others even use the names of real translators."
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