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Robert Forstag
Robert Forstag  Identity Verified
Verenigde Staten
Local time: 02:36
Spaans naar Engels
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Dec 21, 2020

This morning, I received the following typically phony job offer from a person who just set up a phony profile (https://www.proz.com/profile/3132731) in which he couldn't even manage to spell his phony name right:

ProZ.com user visited your ProZ.com profile and sent the following message.

Author: Mark Wison
Author's Profile: proz.com/profile/3132731
Author's IP... See more
This morning, I received the following typically phony job offer from a person who just set up a phony profile (https://www.proz.com/profile/3132731) in which he couldn't even manage to spell his phony name right:

ProZ.com user visited your ProZ.com profile and sent the following message.

Author: Mark Wison
Author's Profile: proz.com/profile/3132731
Author's IP address: 172.100.141.199

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Hello, Hop you are fine today! I have a new translation task
from English to Spanish. Let me know if you can help with
this
task, waiting to hear from you soon.


Best Regards, Mark Wison. ▲ Collapse


Tom in London
Mervyn Henderson (X)
Jessica Noyes
Barbara Carrara
 
writeaway
writeaway  Identity Verified
Frans naar Engels
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Anyone can set up a profile, no questions asked Dec 21, 2020

Proz is there for absolutely anyone who wants sign up as as a translator, outsourcer or whatever.
No questions are asked, anything at all can be stated on the profile page without having to prove that any of it is true.
This leaves the door wide open to those who want to scam, cheat, deceive, etc. others on the site. Most people are eager for work so full contact details and other personal information are visible. We can read the results of this in the form day after day, scam repor... See more
Proz is there for absolutely anyone who wants sign up as as a translator, outsourcer or whatever.
No questions are asked, anything at all can be stated on the profile page without having to prove that any of it is true.
This leaves the door wide open to those who want to scam, cheat, deceive, etc. others on the site. Most people are eager for work so full contact details and other personal information are visible. We can read the results of this in the form day after day, scam report after scam report.

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Rachel Fell
Robert Forstag
Jennifer White
Barbara Carrara
Daryo
P.L.F. Persio
 
Daryo
Daryo
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Local time: 07:36
Servisch naar Engels
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Unfortunately, the opposite is not much better Dec 29, 2020

writeaway wrote:

Proz is there for absolutely anyone who wants sign up as as a translator, outsourcer or whatever.
No questions are asked, anything at all can be stated on the profile page without having to prove that any of it is true.
This leaves the door wide open to those who want to scam, cheat, deceive, etc. others on the site. Most people are eager for work so full contact details and other personal information are visible. We can read the results of this in the form day after day, scam report after scam report.



That is a very real problem, but there are no perfect solutions to that.

You can find plenty samples of various websites / registers that do have more or less elaborate "inclusion criteria" and still can not guarantee that you won't end up with someone not capable of delivering what you need to be done (like a crap solicitor registered in all sorts of "registries" that will manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on your behalf ...)

One way or another whatever you find on the Web has to taken with caution, and further checked as much as possible.

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
P.L.F. Persio
 


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