Has anyone got this?
Thread poster: Baran Keki
Baran Keki
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Mar 10

I've just received this wonderful email, and decided to have my eyes checked, but before I do that let me run it by you. It says 48 cents a word, right? I'm still not drunk from the weekend?

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Lian Pang
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Too good to be true Mar 10

Not sure how is this price positioned in your language pair. For mine, it looks too good to be true - and most of the time it is

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Just look at the email address Mar 10

Trash it and forget.

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Baran Keki
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Why did you have to ruin this for me? Mar 10

Natalie wrote:

Trash it and forget.

Looks like I'm just sobering up now because I've just noticed that they say "with competitive pay of £0.48 per word"
Maybe they meant "£0.0048"? That should be the going rate in India...
So my eyes are okay then..


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Oh... I am so sorry... Mar 10

I really did not mean to ruin this competitive rate for you...

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Telegram Mar 10

Telegram is widely known for scams…

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"Spots are limited, only a few positions remain" Mar 10

Why would they need several translators for 9,000 words with a 3-4 day delivery?

"Remote freelance" is odd verbiage, too.

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Baran Keki
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What is the end game? Mar 10

I often see scams like this being flagged here, and I've never understood the reason, the purpose behind all this. Why are they doing this? Are they actually doing this to provide translation services to their end client with the intention of not paying the translator who has done the work? Is that it?
If so, forget about the "gmail" or "telegram" part (that requires vigilance, and people can be duped easily for whatever reason), any person who buys into words like "competitive rate of 48
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I often see scams like this being flagged here, and I've never understood the reason, the purpose behind all this. Why are they doing this? Are they actually doing this to provide translation services to their end client with the intention of not paying the translator who has done the work? Is that it?
If so, forget about the "gmail" or "telegram" part (that requires vigilance, and people can be duped easily for whatever reason), any person who buys into words like "competitive rate of 48 cents per word" or "limited spots for a 9k project" is a retard, to put it mildly, or in the words of Donald Trump "not a very smart person", and would you expect an idiot to produce a passable translation?
You need to find a halfway smart person to do the translation so that your end client will have no complaints at the end and pay you as agreed and then come back to you again for other jobs, even if you f*ck the translators by not paying them and go from translator to translator for future jobs.
In my opinion, working with retards is not a sustainable endeavor. They must be doing this for sexual pleasure alone.
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