| Pages in topic: < [1 2 3] | Money transfer from Senegal - am I dealing with scam? Thread poster: Helena Guimarães
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| It seems that it is my turn this time, scammer's trap | Jul 15, 2023 |
Yes. It is my turn in 2023. Money transfer from Senegal. I can see that the first time it has happened in 2016. So it would suggest that the so-called bernadette is working in a really running scammers' business. But this time he/she is in a dead end path, because, no money transfer, to and from, is allowed in my country, Hell.
Just wanted to reiterate among others that in 2023 sanou dao bernadette is still trying to send 50% of contract in advance without verifying the translator and seei... See more Yes. It is my turn in 2023. Money transfer from Senegal. I can see that the first time it has happened in 2016. So it would suggest that the so-called bernadette is working in a really running scammers' business. But this time he/she is in a dead end path, because, no money transfer, to and from, is allowed in my country, Hell.
Just wanted to reiterate among others that in 2023 sanou dao bernadette is still trying to send 50% of contract in advance without verifying the translator and seeing the work.
Thanks to the messages in this Forum. I was going to be convinced, seriously. ▲ Collapse
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The same Adame Ba konare. This person mailed my in 2021 and I almost signed the contract but I asked for additional ID and then the communication went dead. Now, a few days ago I received a new email asking for a translation of 78 pages from English into Croatian, payment - 12,000 EUR. Definitely ready to be reported to polices authorities
| | | | | Same here - from the email address sanoudaobern@gmail.com | Aug 13 |
I also received this email. I had my suspicions, but they were confirmed thanks to this thread. I'm copying the full text of the email I received, so that it may help any other translator who might get it and google it (as I did).
When I asked her for more details, she replied twice: one with an English document, and the exact same email but with a different document in French. That's when I realised it was definitely dodgy.
"Hello
My name is Bernadette; I am in A... See more I also received this email. I had my suspicions, but they were confirmed thanks to this thread. I'm copying the full text of the email I received, so that it may help any other translator who might get it and google it (as I did).
When I asked her for more details, she replied twice: one with an English document, and the exact same email but with a different document in French. That's when I realised it was definitely dodgy.
"Hello
My name is Bernadette; I am in Africa. I am looking for a translator to translate a 79-page book from French to Spanish. I am prepared to send a copy and I have a budget of 14000 Euros for translation and revision. delivery Translation: 4 months.
Bernadette" ▲ Collapse
| | | | Jenni Pakula 
Finland
Local time: 19:32
Russian to Finnish
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| Same here too, from bakonare04@gmail.com | Aug 30 |
The scammer is back to Ba Konare. I received an email with two other Finland-based translators in the recipient field. One of them does not even translate into Finnish, they just happen to exist in a translator registry next to my name...
Budget is up this time! 14 000 € for 78 pages. Here is the message sent from bakonare04@gmail.com.
"Hello,
I am in Africa (Burkina faso). I am looking for a trans... See more The scammer is back to Ba Konare. I received an email with two other Finland-based translators in the recipient field. One of them does not even translate into Finnish, they just happen to exist in a translator registry next to my name...
Budget is up this time! 14 000 € for 78 pages. Here is the message sent from bakonare04@gmail.com.
"Hello,
I am in Africa (Burkina faso). I am looking for a translator to translate a 79-page book from English to Finnish. I am prepared to send a copy and I have a budget of €14000 for translation and revision. delivery Translation: 4 months.
Adame"
I answered once and got a reliable-looking docx-file for answer, but it seems to be written by someone else. No talk about paying to be paid (yet) but already a lot of talk about banks transfers "being secure". I was tempted to fall for this but it's just too good to be true. ▲ Collapse
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