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Thread poster: Marie von Künssberg
Marie von Künssberg
Marie von Künssberg
France
Local time: 17:09
English to French
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Jul 13, 2010

Hello all,

I would like to know if someone has already been contacted by thie email address:equalitytrans ([email protected]) . I received a job offer from this email address and find weird to get it from an hotmail address, plus they confirm I have the jow without checking e translation sample or sending a test.
They require to get Systran business version and say they can offer it to at a discount of $290 which seems vey low...I am afraid it is a scam. Can someone he... See more
Hello all,

I would like to know if someone has already been contacted by thie email address:equalitytrans ([email protected]) . I received a job offer from this email address and find weird to get it from an hotmail address, plus they confirm I have the jow without checking e translation sample or sending a test.
They require to get Systran business version and say they can offer it to at a discount of $290 which seems vey low...I am afraid it is a scam. Can someone help?

Thanks and regards. ▲ Collapse
 
Laurent KRAULAND (X)
Laurent KRAULAND (X)  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 17:09
French to German
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Known scam Jul 13, 2010

Hi Marie,
the Systran scam has been around for some time.

Of course, Systran themselves have absolutely nothing to do with it. The best thing is to bin and/or to report such e-mails.

HTH.
 
Marie von Künssberg
Marie von Künssberg
France
Local time: 17:09
English to French
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TOPIC STARTER
scam equality trans Jul 13, 2010

thanks you for the confirmation.

Best regards,

Marie
 
Enrique Cavalitto
Enrique Cavalitto  Identity Verified
Argentina
Local time: 12:09
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
Wiki page started on this subject Jul 13, 2010

A ProZ.com Wiki articles was started on the issue of Detecting and reacting to false job offers and other scams.

You are welcome and encouraged to add to this article to create a resource that will help translators in this subject area.

Kind regards,
Enrique
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 16:09
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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I googled the e-mail adress and got this: Jul 13, 2010

http://www.news.mazgas.com/article/news.omnitel.net/omnitel.translation/25146
http://read-newsgroups.com/newsgroups.php?art_group=omnitel.translation&message_id=25146&attachment_id=1
 
Katalin Horváth McClure
Katalin Horváth McClure  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 11:09
Member (2002)
English to Hungarian
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Systran scam is well known Jul 13, 2010

There is a separate thread about it here, too:

http://www.proz.com/forum/scams/112609-scammers_requesting_to_buy_systran_language_software.html
 


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