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Thread poster: Yasutomo Kanazawa
Yasutomo Kanazawa
Yasutomo Kanazawa  Identity Verified
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Nov 25, 2023

I received the following email today:

I hope this email finds you well. I have a project of $24,904,000.00USD that I would love to introduce to you. Kindly respond back to me and I will explain more
to you.

Regards,
Ms. Ramona Caswell.

I'm very curious what kind of a project pays you 24.9 million dollars. Maybe a cleaning job? lol
I hope you get the joke.

P.L.F. Persio
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Baran Keki
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Baran Keki
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Sounds like a 'contract job' Nov 26, 2023

I suspect it's to do with 'AI killing the industry, making the human translator redundant'. They're now physically eliminating them. Someone has to do the dirty work I suppose... I'd be tempted.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
P.L.F. Persio
Evandro Costa
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
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Set for Life Nov 27, 2023

Whether you fulfill this "contract" and get away with it or get caught, you are set for life either way.

Baran Keki
P.L.F. Persio
Evandro Costa
Thayenga
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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. Nov 27, 2023

Apparently “she” left the bank sector and decided to try translation, always with "attractive" offers…

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Apparently “she” left the bank sector and decided to try translation, always with "attractive" offers…

https://www.scamreporting.org/ms-ramona-caswell-chief-internal-auditor-banking-division/
https://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=101225
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Evandro Costa
 
Thomas T. Frost
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Hit Dec 11, 2023

Baran Keki wrote:

I suspect it's to do with 'AI killing the industry, making the human translator redundant'. They're now physically eliminating them. Someone has to do the dirty work I suppose... I'd be tempted.


Sounds like it will be a hit.

Only just received the email notification for the creation of this topic now from the Proz email doomsday machine.

Baran Keki
 
Matthias Brombach
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Decimal point Dec 11, 2023

Please beware of the fact that non native speakers of English often put a comma where normally a decimal point would be necessary (and vice versa).

Baran Keki
 
Thomas T. Frost
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Point Dec 12, 2023

Matthias Brombach wrote:

Please beware of the fact that non native speakers of English often put a comma where normally a decimal point would be necessary (and vice versa).


This isn't the case here, so what's your point?

Thankfully, incorrect use of the decimal point does not automatically make someone a scammer.

Lieven Malaise
 


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