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Scam warning! - apparently from a translation job applicant
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Real and present danger Aug 10, 2008

Ivana Friis Wilson wrote:

If the quoted email is a scam - what is the scam? As I understand it, the only problem was that the email was incorrect? No one tried to get steal any money or similar?



At best, it's just spam destined for the junk folder.

A more sinister possibility is that someone is using a real person's name (which is why it's been blanked here) or, far more likely, a fake name, pretending to offer their services to translation companies and offering to send a resume, which could turn out to contain malicious software such as a virus that will erase all your data or spyware that will embed itself in your system and, unbeknownst to you, steal your identity or do stuff in the background that will bring police knocking on your door.

If your OS and AV software are up-to-date, if your firewall is on, and if, on top of that, your ISP checks all incoming emails for viruses and such, you are pretty much safe, but I'm sure that there are still people out there who can't be bothered to wait for their Windows updates to download or will blithely open any attachment that comes in.

I've received evidently genuine and safe unsolicited collaboration offers by email with or without attachments from other translators in the past. But I just got bad vibes from this one right away.

So I did my due diligence. There is no person under this name in the Montreal telephone directory unless her number is not listed, and the other two mentions of it on the Internet concern another possible spam/scam job from two years ago (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dejavu-l/message/70783) and this very email. This very thread is also referenced at http://pbayle.com/pandemonium/?p=124#comments.

The other few times someone has tried to pull a con like this on me, the name was also nonexistent and the email address was web-based.

So it's not unlikely that somebody out there is specifically targeting translators with intent to cause harm or do something else illegal, hoping that at least one or a few of the potential victims will take the bait. Caution is warranted. Better safe than sorry


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