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A scammer or group of scammers pretending to represent "Telus International" to send fake job offers via email. The offer, is taken up, is followed by a long recruitment process which ends with the request of a payment, to issue a "company ID". Please remember that, as a general rule, you should never make a payment in order to be assigned a project.
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Michael Newton United States Local time: 12:09 Japanese to English + ...
Pay-to-work scam
Jul 21, 2023
A few weeks ago there was a job offered on proz.com from a Mexican translation company that I had never heard of. The job involved hundreds of pages of Japanese legal documentation. The fly in the ointment was that they demanded a 15% finder's fee for the entire job which would have easily added up to USD 1,000. I looked up the company on the Internet. They have a valid address in CDMX but no email address (this is increasingly common for translation agencies). I consider this a "pay-to-play" sc... See more
A few weeks ago there was a job offered on proz.com from a Mexican translation company that I had never heard of. The job involved hundreds of pages of Japanese legal documentation. The fly in the ointment was that they demanded a 15% finder's fee for the entire job which would have easily added up to USD 1,000. I looked up the company on the Internet. They have a valid address in CDMX but no email address (this is increasingly common for translation agencies). I consider this a "pay-to-play" scheme. And when you are dealing with a company in Mexico....... Any opinions? ▲ Collapse
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