Brilliant job opportunity Thread poster: Philip Lees
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This is so good I had to share it. Note that I'm only including the name and the eerily similar email address in the From field because they're so obviously fake.
Me Translator < [email protected]> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Hi dear I have a Greek-English project, and I want to translate it and deliver it within a specified date, using the Tardos program. I got your data from the Internet, and please do not be disturbed by my message. Words: 6076 Rate: $0.02 Tool - SDL Trados Return: 1 Studio return package file Delivery Timing: 4 pm IST Please work on the sdl trados file. The excel file is just for reference. Kindly proceed and deliver within the deadline. Ola Randomly generated company name Different address from the From [email protected]
How many boxes does this one tick?
If my interpretation of the time zone is correct, they allocated one and a half hours for this job.
Presumably, the "Tardos" reference is a typo, and should refer to the "Tardis", i.e. the time machine the translator will require in order to complete the task "within a specified date".
The email has two attachments. I wonder what they could be.
| | | | Thayenga 
Germany
Local time: 15:13
Member (2009)
English to German
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| A new experience | Sep 9, 2023 |
Thank you for sharing this wonderful job opportunity with us, Philip.
You are absolutely right. It would indeed be a great, a unique experience to translate with the support of a time machine. Isn't such an experience the dream of every translator?
Whenever I have a spare moment I wonder if these scammers ever read their own writings? Probably not. Else they would realize that their offer has scam written ... See more Thank you for sharing this wonderful job opportunity with us, Philip.
You are absolutely right. It would indeed be a great, a unique experience to translate with the support of a time machine. Isn't such an experience the dream of every translator?
Whenever I have a spare moment I wonder if these scammers ever read their own writings? Probably not. Else they would realize that their offer has scam written all over it. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | | Philip Lees
Greece
Local time: 16:13
Greek to English
TOPIC STARTER
Believe it or not, they sent me the same great job offer again, just a few hours later. Saturday must have been my lucky day! The same text, except for a few cuts that made it even less intelligible, and the rate had been reduced to $0.015.
The deadline, however, remained the same, being now earlier than the time of the email, so the need for the Tardis was even more urgent.
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Philip Lees
Greece
Local time: 16:13
Greek to English
TOPIC STARTER
Thayenga wrote:
Whenever I have a spare moment I wonder if these scammers ever read their own writings? Probably not. Else they would realize that their offer has scam written all over it.
I had the thought that maybe this is some kind of advance filter, which will let through only the most gullible of people, and the real scam comes later.
Anybody who responds to this will subsequently receive an offer of the Brooklyn Bridge (or the Eiffel Tower, if in Europe) at a bargain price.
| | | | TonyTK
German to English
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| A job for Jast | Sep 10, 2023 |
Philip Lees wrote:
Presumably, the "Tardos" reference is a typo, and should refer to the "Tardis", i.e. the time machine the translator will require in order to complete the task "within a specified date".
Enter stage left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxD-5z_xHBU
| | | | Joakim Braun
Sweden
Local time: 15:13
German to Swedish
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| Not a great loss | Sep 10, 2023 |
At $0.02/word, does it matter if it's a scam or not?
| | | | Robert Forstag
United States
Local time: 09:13
Spanish to English
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| Nowadays, even the scams aren't tempting! | Sep 12, 2023 |
Joakim Braun wrote:
At $0.02/word, does it matter if it's a scam or not?
'Tis a sad day indeed....
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Philip Lees
Greece
Local time: 16:13
Greek to English
TOPIC STARTER | Tardis catching on | Sep 13, 2023 |
It appears that the use of time machines in the translation industry is spreading. Yesterday (i.e. September 12) I got a job posting from ProZ that contained the following instructions:
Delivery deadline: 2023-09-09 19:00:00
Quoting deadline: 2023-09-08 19:00:00
This job is available only to ProZ.com members until 5:42am Sep 7 GMT
So now you need a Tardis just to quote on translation jobs, let alone actually deliver them.
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 15:13
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Similar "opportunity" | Sep 14, 2023 |
Yy wrote on 14. Sept. 2023:
Hello Dear
This is Yy from Xy Trans, I hope all is well on your side.
I am reaching out to check your availability for the below
project, if you are available, please respond with your proz link
and CV:
-Tool: Memsource, we grant access
-Language Pair: English into German
-Volume: 1.5 Million words
-Start: Tomorrow
-Rate: $0.03/ Word
-Deadline: You will be asked to deliver 2000-2500 words per day
till Sep 12th.
-Subject: General.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Reported as spam (was sent through Proz).
PS: "Yy" has a German woman's name while the agency is in Egypt.
[Bearbeitet am 2023-09-14 16:47 GMT]
| | | | expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 14:13
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| Another task for Tardis | Sep 14, 2023 |
Zea_Mays wrote: Yy wrote on 14. Sept. 2023:
Hello Dear
This is Yy from Xy Trans, I hope all is well on your side.
I am reaching out to check your availability for the below
project, if you are available, please respond with your proz link
and CV:
-Tool: Memsource, we grant access
-Language Pair: English into German
-Volume: 1.5 Million words
-Start: Tomorrow
-Rate: $0.03/ Word
-Deadline: You will be asked to deliver 2000-2500 words per day
till Sep 12th.
-Subject: General.
Looking forward to hearing back from you. Reported as spam (was sent through Proz). PS: "Yy" has a German woman's name while the agency is in Egypt. [Bearbeitet am 2023-09-14 16:47 GMT]
They wrote you on 14th September, and ask you for sending partial deliveries till 12th September!
Another task for Tardis... or maybe a kind of magic!
Even the scammers are dying 
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Zea_Mays wrote: Yy wrote on 14. Sept. 2023:
Hello Dear
This is Yy from Xy Trans, I hope all is well on your side.
I am reaching out to check your availability for the below
project, if you are available, please respond with your proz link
and CV:
-Tool: Memsource, we grant access
-Language Pair: English into German
-Volume: 1.5 Million words
-Start: Tomorrow
-Rate: $0.03/ Word
-Deadline: You will be asked to deliver 2000-2500 words per day
till Sep 12th.
-Subject: General.
Looking forward to hearing back from you. Reported as spam (was sent through Proz). PS: "Yy" has a German woman's name while the agency is in Egypt. [Bearbeitet am 2023-09-14 16:47 GMT]
They are middlemen for an infamous non-paying big agency here on ProZ.
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