A new kind of scam Təhdid postu: davansetrad
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This week, I received an email from someone identifying themselves as a recruitment manager at Welo Calize, offering me a job of 8,400 words at $0.35 per word. I accepted the job, and after delivering it and calculating the total, I realized the amount was significantly above the market rate and that they had likely made a mistake—the correct rate should have been $0.035. I delivered the work, and when it was time for payment, they said the correct rate was indeed $0.35 per word, which amounte... See more This week, I received an email from someone identifying themselves as a recruitment manager at Welo Calize, offering me a job of 8,400 words at $0.35 per word. I accepted the job, and after delivering it and calculating the total, I realized the amount was significantly above the market rate and that they had likely made a mistake—the correct rate should have been $0.035. I delivered the work, and when it was time for payment, they said the correct rate was indeed $0.35 per word, which amounted to $2,800 for 8,100 words. Fine, I didn’t complain.
Then, they told me I had to contact a third-party company called CashierPrime to receive the payment. This company instructed me to open an account with Broxel Bank and sent me the link. I clicked on the link, and everything seemed quite normal. I opened the account, provided my account details to CashierPrime, and they made the deposit. Once the amount was deposited, I needed to access Broxel Bank to transfer the funds to my account in Brazil.
When I attempted the transfer, I received the following message:
"The sender bank identifier code (BIC) is required to litigate and process this operation, kindly contact [email protected] or our online customer support chat for the generation of the BIC code to complete the transaction."
I contacted support, and they informed me that I needed to make a refundable PIX transfer of $250 and provided the details of a private individual. I questioned why I was being asked to transfer money to an individual if I was dealing with a bank. Their response was that these were administrative support personnel.
In the end, I didn’t make the transfer. From the start, I found the situation a bit suspicious, but everything seemed very professional, including their communication, the company pages—everything. It turns out they were a highly professional group of scammers.
So, stay alert—chances are I wasn’t the only one approached by these individuals.
[Edited at 2025-01-24 11:31 GMT]
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| | | | expressisverbis
Portuqaliya
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| Liviu-Lee Roth
United States
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You know what strikes me? On your profile you have the bare minimum information posted, I assume, in order to protect yourself, however you fell for the most common and simple scam. Weird.
Lee
| | | | Dan Lucas 
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:04
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| This is far from being a new scam | Jan 25 |
davansetrad wrote:
This week, I received an email from someone identifying themselves as a recruitment manager at Welo Calize, offering me a job of 8,400 words at $0.35 per word.
It was foolish to imagine that a stranger on the internet would suddenly appear and offer you a $3,000 job without knowing anything about you or without asking you to perform a trial. And I bet if you look at the email addresses involved they do not originate from the company that this person claimed to be their employer. Was it a gmail address by any chance?
On the other hand, you came here to warn people about it, and hopefully other potential victims will Google before they take on such fantasy jobs and find posts like this on this and other sites. It all helps!
Regards,
Dan
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| Professional scammers | Jan 26 |
It's wise not to believe things that seem too good to be true!
I've thwarted dozens of well-crafted scams!
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United Kingdom
Persian (Farsi) to English
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| people are desperate and fall for scams | Jan 26 |
Dan Lucas wrote:
davansetrad wrote:
This week, I received an email from someone identifying themselves as a recruitment manager at Welo Calize, offering me a job of 8,400 words at $0.35 per word.
It was foolish to imagine that a stranger on the internet would suddenly appear and offer you a $3,000 job without knowing anything about you or without asking you to perform a trial. And I bet if you look at the email addresses involved they do not originate from the company that this person claimed to be their employer. Was it a gmail address by any chance?
On the other hand, you came here to warn people about it, and hopefully other potential victims will Google before they take on such fantasy jobs and find posts like this on this and other sites. It all helps!
Regards,
Dan
Dan you are absolutely right, but I have seen that lots of people, including established translators, are falling for these sorts of scams. That said, a huge target "market" for these scammers are the newbies who are trying to "get into" freelance translation as a side hustle because they have seen some videos or posts by influencers who claim that this is a route to financial success. These people are vulnerable because they believed this hype and also have zero idea of what rates are normally paid by agencies etc. So when the scammer offers them this sort of "work" they think the hype was true and here's their first well paying client.
It's good that this person highlighted the scammers here as you say...
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