| Pages in topic: < [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17] | Scam: Public Organization Procedures Research Phase 1 and 2 Thread poster: Samuel Murray
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Dan Lucas 
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:14
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| Provided you haven't sent any money you'll be okay | May 14 |
Katarzyna Badura wrote:
What shall I do now? I am really freaking out that this person might use my address agains me and I don't know waht to do...
The scam is not that you have given her your address, which is probably available from a number of different databases. The scam, as mentioned in the message right above yours, is that the check will be too large and she will ask you to pay back the "excess". If you do send this money, the check itself will bounce in a couple of days and the deposit will be reversed as if it had never existed. Any money you were to send her it is real, however, and you would never get it back. It's a very old scam that predates the internet. Throw away the check, and ignore all communication going forward. Provided you haven't transferred any money, you will be fine.
Dan
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I haven't sent them anything - luckily, I found this chat soon enough before making the biggest mistake of my life:) Next time I will be more careful:)
| | | | Jeff Lazar
United States
Local time: 03:14
Member (2023)
Korean to English
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The document to translate began with the text: "PUBLIC ORGANISATION PROCEDURES RESEARCH, PHASE 1, What do organizations use conflict management for? For any organization to be effective and efficient in achieving its goals, the people in the organization..."
The email was as follows:
"Hello, how are you doing ? I'm pleased to know you are interested in handling this project. It will be nice working with you. I hope you will treat me well just like other as I am deaf of ... See more The document to translate began with the text: "PUBLIC ORGANISATION PROCEDURES RESEARCH, PHASE 1, What do organizations use conflict management for? For any organization to be effective and efficient in achieving its goals, the people in the organization..."
The email was as follows:
"Hello, how are you doing ? I'm pleased to know you are interested in handling this project. It will be nice working with you. I hope you will treat me well just like other as I am deaf of hearing..I will be glad if you can handle project very well However, I will require your service to translate the attached English document. In the mean time, could you also confirm your charges per page, per source word or for the entire translation? 44 pages and 11646 words in total let me know how much you will charge ??The deadline for this Project is 1 month starting from 30th/May/2024. Finally, I'm proposing a cashier cheque or bank certified cheque for the payment. You will be getting the payment before you start the project .Please do not hesitate to confirm if this is okay with you? I look forward to reading from you soon." ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Same document from a Dennis Shore but he is willing to pay by transfer | May 27 |
Hi, guys. This Dennis shore has sent me the same document a few weeks ago. I was excited to have my first direct client, finally! I sent him my CV (so he has all my personal information, I'm from Argentina) and the bank account in USA where I receive payments. He was willing to make the transfer (USD 600), but when I googled his phone number I found this and I told him that the project was cancelled. No response at all during 7 days, till now that I've just received this email. What should I do?... See more Hi, guys. This Dennis shore has sent me the same document a few weeks ago. I was excited to have my first direct client, finally! I sent him my CV (so he has all my personal information, I'm from Argentina) and the bank account in USA where I receive payments. He was willing to make the transfer (USD 600), but when I googled his phone number I found this and I told him that the project was cancelled. No response at all during 7 days, till now that I've just received this email. What should I do? If he really makes the transfer, where is the scam? I don't understand what he might thinking about:
"I am so sorry for the payment delay, you have nothing to be afraid of, there is death in the family of my sponsor so I have little delay. I hope the project is in progress now? But I am happy to inform you that your payment has been initiated to you by my sponsor. Also, we discussed considering you for the next phase of this project, but I need to be sure the first phase will be well translated. The additional fee for the next phase of the project was added. We've calculated the next phase with your rate, so the first phase and the next document will cost us $3,776.10. So a payment of $3,776.10 has been initiated by Botetourt County, Virginia into a bank account ending with XXXXX 1199.
The Remitter Name and Address is below:
Botetourt County, Virginia
P.O. Box 100 Fincastle, VA 24090
Remitter Bank is First Bank and the purpose is REFUND
Kindly watch out for it. We don't have much time now.
Amount : $3,776.10
Kindly confirm with me as soon as you receive the payment. I hope to hear from you soon". ▲ Collapse
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| I got exact email from scammer. | May 29 |
I am happy that I found this post before I got scammed!!!
I received email like this from Lorraine Rose
How are you doing? there will be a project i will be needed
you to translate English To Japanese if you can do that
kindly get back to me
via emai [email protected]
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Then I responded
Thank you for your email.
I'd... See more I am happy that I found this post before I got scammed!!!
I received email like this from Lorraine Rose
How are you doing? there will be a project i will be needed
you to translate English To Japanese if you can do that
kindly get back to me
via emai [email protected]
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Then I responded
Thank you for your email.
I'd love to help translate your project.
Could you kindly share about it with me?
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She replied with word document attached: Public Organization Procedures Research Phase 1
Hello, how are you doing ? I'm pleased to know you are interested in handling this project. It will be nice working with you. I hope you will treat me well just like other as I am deaf of hearing. Email only and Text I am in Ottawa Canada.I will be glad if you can handle project very well However, I will require your service to translate the attached English document. In the mean time, could you also confirm your charges per page, per source word or for the entire translation? 44 pages and 11646 words in total let me know how much you will charge ??The deadline for this Project is 1 month starting from 10th/JUNE/2024. Finally, I'm proposing a cashier check or bank certified check for the payment. You will be getting the payment before you start the project .Please do not hesitate to confirm if this is okay with you? I look forward to reading from you soon.
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I relied to her my rate also asking why did she choose me etc.
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She replied
Hello, everything will be paid to you once. Thank you for getting back. I quite agree with your price quote and i am willing to pay for your service. This project is a research paper being sponsor for a seminar coming up soon, so I would like to make an advance payment or make the full payment so you know you have my job with you. In the mean time, do get back to me with the following payment information in the format below.
1. Full Name to be written on the Check
2. Full Physical Address:
3. Mobile number
Your payment will be prepared once I have the requested details. Payment will be received before you send the document. Get back to me
asap.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL EVERYONE!!
What is the safest transaction if I receive job offer from real person/company?? ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Ugh same scam still going around | May 30 |
I received a message on LinkedIn from a paralegal at a Law Firm (supposedly). I looked up the website, seemed legit and the email I was asked to forward my resume to was there. After I sent my resume I received a request to translate this same document, from Spanish to English. I knew the title seemed familiar because I had received this before. What a disappointment.
Email received from: [email protected]
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