| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Possible scam: from Engr Bill Bord (EGYPT) Thread poster: zipang
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| Just yesterday I received almost identical email | Jul 28, 2011 |
My name is Bill presently on an official assignment in cairo,Egypt and will be proceeding to your country for official Engineering conference meeting with Lithuanian council on the 27th of August.I will need your service to translate a write up for me.
I actually need to make a presentation to some group of Lithuanian speaking people in US.so i will need you to help in translating the paper to Lithuanian,so each participants can have a copy and they can follow through.
... See more My name is Bill presently on an official assignment in cairo,Egypt and will be proceeding to your country for official Engineering conference meeting with Lithuanian council on the 27th of August.I will need your service to translate a write up for me.
I actually need to make a presentation to some group of Lithuanian speaking people in US.so i will need you to help in translating the paper to Lithuanian,so each participants can have a copy and they can follow through.
Let me know your rate and charges for a total of presentation of word.Presentation is attached.
Thank you.
Bill
+20165542633(EGYPT) ▲ Collapse
| | | | Remy Arce 
United States
Local time: 00:47
English to Spanish
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| Same scam...now requesting the Spanish translation | Jul 29, 2011 |
I received this a few minutes ago:
Enquiry About Your Translation Service !!!
[Print]
From:
Engr Bill Bord Hide
Add to: To Do, Calendar
To:
undisclosed-recipients:;
Date:
Fri, Jul 29, 2011 10:01 am
Regional_Seminar_on_Economic_Dynamics_of_Newly.doc
"My name is Bill presently on an official assignment in cairo,Egypt and will be proceeding to your country for official Engineering conference meeting with Spanish c... See more I received this a few minutes ago:
Enquiry About Your Translation Service !!!
[Print]
From:
Engr Bill Bord Hide
Add to: To Do, Calendar
To:
undisclosed-recipients:;
Date:
Fri, Jul 29, 2011 10:01 am
Regional_Seminar_on_Economic_Dynamics_of_Newly.doc
"My name is Bill presently on an official assignment in cairo,Egypt and will be proceeding to your country for official Engineering conference meeting with Spanish council on the 27th of August.I will need your service to translate a write up for me.
I actually need to make a presentation to some group of Spanish speaking people in US.so i will need you to help in translating the paper to Spanish,so each participants can have a copy and they can follow through.
Let me know your rate and charges for a total of presentation of word.Presentation is attached.
Thank you.
Bill
+20165542633(EGYPT)" ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Got it too, for Spanish language | Jul 29, 2011 |
I also received the email, for Spanish language.
| | | | | Fishy from the very start | Jul 29, 2011 |
Bill Bord looking for translators sounds like a Lance Cover in search for a photographer. My name is Bond, Junk Bond.
He missed the trite Dr., Prof., Attorney as part of his name, yet couldn't resist including the "Engr."
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lee roth wrote:
@ Giuseppina - not good. By answering, you confirmed your e-mail.
I am going to close that address anyway, secondly I always answer to scammers, just to let them know that translators are not as stupid as they think.
They never answer back, obviously
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Giuseppina Gatta, MA (Hons) wrote:
lee roth wrote:
@ Giuseppina - not good. By answering, you confirmed your e-mail.
I am going to close that address anyway, secondly I always answer to scammers, just to let them know that translators are not as stupid as they think.
I'm not sure to what extent that advice is true any more, anyway. Back in the day, when everyone was on pay-per-minute dial-up, and even spammers and scammers could, like us, almost allocate an individual cost to every email they sent, yes, it was good (cost effective) for them to have confirmed addresses to target first. Now that fixed price broadband access is commonplace, sending out email to non-existent addresses is less of an issue in cost terms, at least.
Plus, as has been pointed out, they are quite often these days using lists of actual addresses harvested from legit websites, not randomly generated addresses. They can very well expect that, reply or no reply, the address is a valid one. I'm not saying don't be careful, but I've had the same email address for 8 years, I have replied to 1 or 2 of these and my auto-reply has replied to a hell of a lot more, and I still only get about 10 spams a day (and 2 of those are from websites I volunteered to receive info from and just haven't bothered to cancel).
| | | | Thomas Shou
United States
Local time: 21:47
Chinese to English
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| Got SAME email.....for Chinese | Jul 30, 2011 |
SCAM! that just wont stop!
I noticed that the link for the original Lith PPT is gone now....
DELETE ASAP!
| | | | Wolf Kux
Brazil
Local time: 01:47
Member (2006)
German to Portuguese
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| Scams, scams, scams. | Jul 30, 2011 |
I receive about 10-15 daily emails that I classify as scams - group buys, P***s enlargements, pheromona to conquer females (not needed, since I live well with my wife!), lawyer courses, pyramids, miraculous financing deals like nigerian connection from all over the world, etc.
My credo is "a good business does not came to find you, but you must go on to find it".
After I get tired deleting such emails, I found a program, called Mailwasher, from New Zealand that analyses... See more I receive about 10-15 daily emails that I classify as scams - group buys, P***s enlargements, pheromona to conquer females (not needed, since I live well with my wife!), lawyer courses, pyramids, miraculous financing deals like nigerian connection from all over the world, etc.
My credo is "a good business does not came to find you, but you must go on to find it".
After I get tired deleting such emails, I found a program, called Mailwasher, from New Zealand that analyses all my accounts (paid and free ones), classifies every email as good, friend, blacklist, spam, etc., without copying such emails to my computer.
A nice feature on it is "bounce", which replies to sender all marked emails on a list with an answer containing a small text with something like "User does not exist".
So, when I start my computer every morning, I see this emails list first, and run deletions and do such bouncings.
Of course, I hope that such, let's say, "serious" spammers (if they exist!) do deletion of my email address, or, at least tell his/her vendor that I do not exist.
If thousands of ours could bounce back such spams, maybe spammers get tired of their scary job and search for another one. ▲ Collapse
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| I got that one too!! | Jul 31, 2011 |
As soon as I opened the email I knew it wasn't "real". What a disappointment!
| | | | rebromero
Local time: 00:47
English to Spanish
| I got THIS today! | Nov 8, 2011 |
My name is Stephen Robinson from Gordon,GA,am presently on business trip here in cairo,Egypt
I actually need to make a presentation to some Spanish group on 7th of Dec,2011 in Honolulu,Hawaii.Therefore i need you translate the presentation to Spanish,so each participants can have a copy and they can follow through.I will also need the work be delivered by/before Dec 4th,2011.
Let me know your rate and charges for a total of presentation of word.Presentation is attache... See more My name is Stephen Robinson from Gordon,GA,am presently on business trip here in cairo,Egypt
I actually need to make a presentation to some Spanish group on 7th of Dec,2011 in Honolulu,Hawaii.Therefore i need you translate the presentation to Spanish,so each participants can have a copy and they can follow through.I will also need the work be delivered by/before Dec 4th,2011.
Let me know your rate and charges for a total of presentation of word.Presentation is attached.
Thank you.
Dr Stephen ▲ Collapse
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