Dear friends, translators and other people of all professional categories using the Internet or receiving mail, dear all who are prone to fraud, this post is foryou.

Of course, translators may feel a little more concerned … I just want to shout very loud:

If I am writing this post today it is because since the beginning of the creation of my business I have been the target of all kind of scams that may affect you as well …

Dear Friends Translators don’t get nabbed, when you receive an order for 350,000 words, from a client that tells you that the price is not important and writes from an Hotmail, Gmail, or other personal address, be very careful! Pay attention to the errors in English, because these e-mails are often written in a very bad English…

Check all the information he gave you (for example in the Blue Board of Proz) because they are often scams: groups of highly organized persons will make you translate texts and will never pay you …

In a more general way, it is the same for mail or e-mail that everyone gets. Mails with obscene amounts of money just waiting for us (and for our account ID of course!) because in a world so easy like ours, it is well known that money falls from the sky! …

Be also careful about mails allegedly sent by your bank, PayPal or other that inform you of a problem with your account and ask you to click on a link to provide your account ID and personal information in order to solve the problem… never forget that your bank or other institution would never ask you your personal information by mail since it always asks you to redirect you to a counselor or to their website … so always be somewhat suspicious!

DON’T GET CAUGHT!