Forum for Translators: New scammer
chineryzone001@hotmail.com
Beware of this guy, called "Terry James".
He is one of those scammers.....
Hi Gaelle, how do you know? He wrote me messages to ask me to do a translation for him, he looks fine but he insists a lot on my personal details, well I don't know. Thanks for your reply
Just answer you can and you will seee what he will offer you: sending you a cheque (a well-known hoax!) before you start translating.
Also, when you ask for his details, he is unable to give you any agency name and gives you an adress in Texas.....When it is clear that this guy is not from America....when you read his very bad english
Ok I see, well thank you. True that his English is not clear sometimes. In my case after his signature his address is written (202 Tours Street Lafayette, Louisiana 70506) but I can't find anything with it. Anyway I won't continue with him. Thanks!
I received a cheque from this individual and I told him I would explain the situation exactly as it stands to the bank. He initially said he sent it before the 20th of July, the cheque is dated the 30th for a huge amount, in British pounds and he is asking me to send the difference back to him. Well fortunately I did not completely waste my time on that, at least I practised my French and I needed that since I am jobless and not entirely an idiot. His reply made no sense whatsoever, his English is dreadful, basically all that I could make out of that e-mail was that the bank should not know other details than the deposit itself :). Thank you for confirming what I suspected was 99% fraud.
I can confirm that... he also goes by the name of David Brin! Same guy, since their cheques have the same signature and are sent from the same address.
I received a huge cheque from him (much more than what I asked) and he asked me to send the excess amount back. And I never saw any money because the payment of the cheque was stopped.
Also, he claims that the translations are for a good cause to make you feel secure.
Dang! I got an email from that Terry James guy. Sadly i did the job and sent it back to him. Its only now that i googled his email adress and i landed on this site. I gave the guy my home adress and phone number as he requested and now i am wondering what he will do with them. I havent yet heard from him since then. Does he then gain some money some how with this scam? It seems he sends everyone the same email with the same Adolecence translations. What then does he do? I wasted a lot of time translating for him but it was a good lesson for me.
Brian, the cheque you received from this "person" will seem real to the bank. Your account would get credited, everything fine until now. Then you trust to make the transfer of the incredibly high difference to this individual (so different account holder since the cheque you received was in GBP and from his "sponsor"). Your problems start as soon as the cheque is cleared, might take up to a month I think, and your bank realizes that his bank has no funds so your balance will result in minus for the amount that you sent this guy back.
I threatened him to tell the bank the situation as it stands and then his English became worse and worse, whatever he sent me made no sense with my previous explanation request, of course insisting that the bank should know nothing.
I held on to the cheque in a safe place (for evidence and protection for the time left for me to stay in this city) and advised him it will not touch my account so he should stop bothering me with annoying e-mails. Et voilà!
T^hank you very much Cristina. That helps. I will surely not touch anything from him again!
Hi,
The same overpayment scam just happened to me :-(
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