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Natalia Postrigan 
Statele Unite
Local time: 16:04
Membru (2016)
din engleză în rusă
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My gut feeling says it's a scam. Why contact a translator if you don't know what language pairs s/he works with? Also, I am suspicious of letters that don't address me by name.
Legit or scam?
Greetings,
Good day to you,i found your contact details on a registry of
translators and interpreters,while searching for a written translator to translate a term paper on my behalf.
Do you posses such such expertise?
Do you
... See more My gut feeling says it's a scam. Why contact a translator if you don't know what language pairs s/he works with? Also, I am suspicious of letters that don't address me by name.
Legit or scam?
Greetings,
Good day to you,i found your contact details on a registry of
translators and interpreters,while searching for a written translator to translate a term paper on my behalf.
Do you posses such such expertise?
Do you provide such services?
What is your target language?
What is your source language?
Do you have any certification?
Are you available for the translation?
Kindly get back to me thanks.
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I wouldn't even read it to that point. Seeing "to translate a term paper" would already be sufficient to consider it a dud.
| | | | mariealpilles
Franţa
Local time: 01:04
din engleză în franceză
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Looking for a written translator - not even able to look up the word translator in a dictionary, or not knowing the difference between an interpreter and a translator!
| | | | Thayenga
Germania
Local time: 01:04
Membru (2009)
din engleză în germană
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This email sounds so vague, it was either written by someone who knows nothing about our professions, or it's a scam.
Yet, it seems that some potential clients/outsourcers don't (bother to) read an LPS's profile, else I wouldn't be receiving requests for interpretation services.
[Edited at 2016-02-20 16:34 GMT]
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Matthias Brombach
Germania
Local time: 01:04
Membru (2007)
din olandeză în germană
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Did you check for the IP in your email client? Possibly a gmail account, I guess.
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Hi Natalia! I've just received the same (suspicious) email sent from [email protected]. It goes like this:
Greetings,
Good day to you,i found your contact details on a registry of
translators and interpreters,while searching for a written translator to translate a term paper on my behalf.
Do you posses such such expertise?
Do you provide such services?
What is your targe... See more Hi Natalia! I've just received the same (suspicious) email sent from [email protected]. It goes like this:
Greetings,
Good day to you,i found your contact details on a registry of
translators and interpreters,while searching for a written translator to translate a term paper on my behalf.
Do you posses such such expertise?
Do you provide such services?
What is your target language?
What is your source language?
Do you have any certification?
Are you available for the translation?
Kindly get back to me thanks.
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| | | | Daryo
Regatul Unit
Local time: 00:04
din sârbă în engleză
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| sounds like a total amateur | Feb 20, 2016 |
who hasn't got a clue about language services [ a written translator?? as opposed to a talking translator?] trying to build a database of translators.
There is already enough middlemen with limited understanding of what is translating / interpreting & other language services, you don't want to have anything to do with/waste your time on a total nincompoop.
Delete/block buttons are what you need...
| | | | Dani Karuniawan
Indonezia
Local time: 06:04
din engleză în indoneziană (bahasa Indonezia)
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| Only read email mentioning your name | Feb 20, 2016 |
Natalia Postrigan wrote: My gut feeling says it's a scam. Why contact a translator if you don't know what language pairs s/he works with? Also, I am suspicious of letters that don't address me by name. Legit or scam?
Greetings,
Good day to you,i found your contact details on a registry of
translators and interpreters,while searching for a written translator to translate a term paper on my behalf.
Do you posses such such expertise?
Do you provide such services?
What is your target language?
What is your source language?
Do you have any certification?
Are you available for the translation?
Kindly get back to me thanks.
I don't read emails, which fail to mention my name, because emails without my name inside are not for me.
[Edited at 2016-02-20 19:57 GMT]
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SofieM
Italia
Local time: 01:04
din franceză în daneză
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| Scam absolulty | Feb 20, 2016 |
Yes, this is without dout a scam!
[Edited at 2016-02-20 22:16 GMT]
| | | | Natalia Postrigan
Statele Unite
Local time: 16:04
Membru (2016)
din engleză în rusă
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INIŢIATORUL SUBIECTULUI
Thank you all. I practically had no doubts, but it's nice to have it confirmed.
Yes, it came from a gmail account. In fact, it is similar to what Lourdes posted:
Micheal andray, [email protected]
[Edited at 2016-02-22 00:48 GMT]
| | | | | A nincompoop indeed | Feb 22, 2016 |
Daryo wrote:
who hasn't got a clue about language services [ a written translator?? as opposed to a talking translator?]
As opposed to a talked translator, whatever kind of being this may be.
There is already enough middlemen with limited understanding of what is translating / interpreting & other language services, you don't want to have anything to do with/waste your time on a total nincompoop.
Total agree and thanks for enriching my English vocabulary, there's never enough epithets to call those.... kind of people, you know.
| | | | | Definitely scam... | Feb 22, 2016 |
D&F = Delete and Forget. Communication with sender is futile.
Edited to add this: Is you are not addressed in the email by your name, it is really pointless to answer (in any situation).
[Edited at 2016-02-22 16:57 GMT]
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MollyRose
Statele Unite
Local time: 18:04
din engleză în spaniolă
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If the person wants a term paper (or any particular document) translated, he should know what the source and target languages are that he needs, so why go to the bother of asking a blanket question such as what are your languages? Crazy!
| | | | Jeff Whittaker
Statele Unite
Local time: 19:04
din spaniolă în engleză
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Clients (especially those who seem to be as naive as this person) do not generally use such terms of art as "target language" and "source language".
Natalia Postrigan wrote:
What is your target language?
What is your source language?
[Edited at 2016-02-23 01:13 GMT]
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