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How can I choose the real clients?
Thread poster: Dalia Nour
Dalia Nour
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Nov 8, 2018

Hello

I hope that I am posting in the right place
I'm a new freelance translator from English into Arabic and vice versa. I'm pretty lost because I don't know how can I differentiate between the real client and the scammer. Could you give me some tips, please?

Thanks in advance!
 
Marjolein Snippe
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several tools and websites Nov 9, 2018

Hi Dalia,

A good start would be Proz.com's BlueBoard https://www.proz.com/blueboard
and this directory: http://www.translator-scammers.com/translator-scammers-directory.htm .
There are quite a lot of other sites listing scammers, see for example this thre... See more
Hi Dalia,

A good start would be Proz.com's BlueBoard https://www.proz.com/blueboard
and this directory: http://www.translator-scammers.com/translator-scammers-directory.htm .
There are quite a lot of other sites listing scammers, see for example this thread:
https://www.proz.com/forum/business_issues/330209-scammers_approaching_translators_using_prozcom.html

Also take a look at this thread
https://www.proz.com/forum/scams/330230-potential_scammer.html
where Teresa describes a few useful indicators.

Several more threads on Proz.com deal with scammers; the bottom line is using your common sense; if it does not feel good, stay away.

Finally, you may want to have a look at this wiki for an explanation about a broad range of scams:
http://wiki.proz.com/wiki/index.php/Detecting_and_reacting_to_false_job_offers_and_other_scams

Good luck! ▲ Collapse


Dalia Nour
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Another useful thread Nov 9, 2018

https://atasavvynewcomer.org/2018/05/22/how-to-identify-and-avoid-translation-scammers/

Dalia Nour
 
Dalia Nour
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Thank you Nov 9, 2018

Thanks for your help!
 


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