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Thread poster: Carla Guerreiro
Carla Guerreiro
Carla Guerreiro  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 09:35
Member (2006)
French to Portuguese
+ ...
Feb 10, 2020

Dear all,

This is a warning for French into Portuguese translators.
Yesterday, I received an email message from Tama West, which was sent to several translators (undisclosed recipients).
This person needs a translation from French into Portuguese.

There is no postal address, phone number ot company name. Nothing.
So, here's my advice: be careful.
 
Wolfgang Schoene
Wolfgang Schoene  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 09:35
Member (2007)
English to German
+ ...
Tama West Feb 10, 2020

I received two requests from French to Italian and French to German. Well aware right from the start that this was a scam I asked for details. Never got any. Same advice, be careful.

Carla Guerreiro
 
Lina Moreno
Lina Moreno
France
Local time: 09:35
French to Spanish
+ ...
Also targetting Spanish translators Feb 10, 2020

Hi all,
she wrote to me too, but for a French to Spanish translation.
I also think it is a scam.
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 08:35
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
+ ...
Her name says it all: Feb 12, 2020

smells like a scam, looks like a scam and reads like a scam.

Thanks for sharing, Carla!
 


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