| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | identity theft goes escalating Thread poster: Marianne Abdul Wahid
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| Paypal reply | May 31, 2013 |
I have received reply from Paypal regarding my query to check for a Paypal account using the email marianne.pasty@hotmail.com and they have found none !!!
| | | | Sara Maghini 
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:55
English to Italian
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| Indeed, Marianne! | Jun 5, 2013 |
Marianne Pasty-Abdul Wahid wrote:
waww! I just had a look at that Directory and the entire site is amazing! Really good job...I see I'm way from being alone!
I have just been informed by an agency I had never worked for that someone stole my CV and sent it to them pretending to be me. They didn't even change my name in the CV, that's how the agency managed to get in touch with me. The address of the scammer is this:
bambytrans502@gmail.com
It's unbelievable what these people do!
Thanks a lot for sharing your experience, Marianne, and good luck!
| | | | Sara Maghini
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:55
English to Italian
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| One more for you, João... | Jun 5, 2013 |
João Roque Dias wrote:
Thank you, Marianne, for sharing this gem! Your scammer was one of the first ones to be featured on my Translators Scammers Directory. You are not alone and I keep adding new scammers every day.
As I said to Marianne, this person stole a very old version of my CV and sent it to an agency pretending it was his... but he didn't even remove my name from the CV!
Here's the email address he used:
bambytrans502@gmail.com
Thanks for your help, João!
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Sam Berner (X)
Australia
Local time: 09:55
English to Arabic
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| Languagemet, TranslationSecrets and the rest | Jun 10, 2013 |
Hi folks,
In 2008, the "famous Mr. IM" started sending me emails demanding information. He would email on a daily basis long questionnaires that he said he needed for "research". These "questionnaires" included all the possible information about a translator one would need to impersonate you - your education, tools, number of words you did per day, specialisation, where you lived (and lived before), etc. etc. These things run into 8 pages. If I had the time, I am sure my corresponde... See more Hi folks,
In 2008, the "famous Mr. IM" started sending me emails demanding information. He would email on a daily basis long questionnaires that he said he needed for "research". These "questionnaires" included all the possible information about a translator one would need to impersonate you - your education, tools, number of words you did per day, specialisation, where you lived (and lived before), etc. etc. These things run into 8 pages. If I had the time, I am sure my correspondence is still somewhere in my archives, and I would dig it out.
I politely told this person I was not interested in his emails three times. When the fourth questionnaire arrived, I had done my research, like JRD (hat off to you, Senor, for the forensic work) and located him in Gaza (with an address in Egypt, so he was probably tunneling through Sinai). I also discovered he ran a "language school" with four cronies, none of whom looked, well, respectable. So I responded in a rather jaded tone of voice, saying that if he didn't stop whatever criminal activity he was into, I will get the Israeli police to visit him. To which came a long, incoherent email threatening to dispose of me physically, and naming me all things you could imagine under the sun (including a few animals that are not kosher to me).
Worried, I called my colleague in Gaza (a real translator I have been cooperating with for years). She said he was quite well known for harassing local linguists, the "language school" was a bike repair shop, and Mr. IM started in the past few days making amorous phone calls to her place at 2:00 AM. In her opinion, he was seriously unwell between the ears, living in a gagaland of his own making.
Reading this today - and a few weeks ago having to warn another colleague in Cairo that his CV ws being used by Mr. IM - I thought I would share my own experience. ▲ Collapse
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Thanks for all your replies and contributions. I believe the best we can do is talk about it and name the responsible people, so this type of forum, Proz's scam alerts and websites like yours Joao should do the work to pull the rug out from under their feet.
To Sam, I thought these guys were somehow acting undercover and only posing impersonal threats by email, but not by phone...
I wonder how far these guys are successful with their scam emails and identity thefts. They use our CVs... See more Thanks for all your replies and contributions. I believe the best we can do is talk about it and name the responsible people, so this type of forum, Proz's scam alerts and websites like yours Joao should do the work to pull the rug out from under their feet.
To Sam, I thought these guys were somehow acting undercover and only posing impersonal threats by email, but not by phone...
I wonder how far these guys are successful with their scam emails and identity thefts. They use our CVs and emails to apply for a job, ok. But the rest of the communication to ask for payment and so on is done with their own words (and bad English), right? And then they give Paypal addresses which do not exist....so how is this supposed to give any results?? I wonder...
It would be interesting to hear from agencies if these tricks actually do work, apart from worrying translators. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | PayPal IDs used by scammers | Aug 17, 2013 |
To my knowledge, scammers never use their "trade" email addresses (i.e., email addresses used in their stolen CVs) as PayPal IDs. And, of course, they never publish such PayPal IDs in the open. Such PayPal email addresses are only given on the "invoices" sent to the "clients" who have fallen into their trap or on private correspondence exchanged between them and their victims.
If you received an invoice from them, you have already been tricked, but, at least, you are in possession o... See more To my knowledge, scammers never use their "trade" email addresses (i.e., email addresses used in their stolen CVs) as PayPal IDs. And, of course, they never publish such PayPal IDs in the open. Such PayPal email addresses are only given on the "invoices" sent to the "clients" who have fallen into their trap or on private correspondence exchanged between them and their victims.
If you received an invoice from them, you have already been tricked, but, at least, you are in possession of this important information: their PayPal email address!
Of course, you should not pay a cent to people who base their operation on impersonation, lies, deception, ID theft and hijacking translator's CVs.
My TRANSLATOR SCAMMERS DIRECTORY -- http://www.jrdias.com/jrd-translator-scammers.htm -- lists the PayPal addresses known to me and confirmed by reliable sources (such "invoices"). ▲ Collapse
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