| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Does this look like a scam? Thread poster: Susana E. Cano Méndez
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I have just checked their IP and they are located in London.
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I have just checked the building on Google Maps (as of the web) and there is a building in the same number with same logo than in the web (Street View). Well, they seem legit. What bothers me the most is changing our profession from time to time into detectives.
| | | | | A freelancer is a one-person company | Aug 28, 2014 |
Susana E. Cano Méndez wrote:
What bothers me the most is changing our profession from time to time into detectives.
Hi Susana, risk management is part of the role description of a freelance translator.
Regards,
Enrique
[Subject edited by staff or moderator 2014-08-28 16:16 GMT]
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| Have the premises reconnoitred by someone | Aug 28, 2014 |
Thayenga wrote:
Hello Susanna,
what strikes me as odd is, why would a potential client start an email to you (or any LSP) by apologizing for... well, yes, for a request for a quote on a possible job?
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It is part of the contagious English culture adopted by non-Brits to apologise and keep saying sorry, even for non-offences like holding open the door for work colleagues. One line in a UK TV play 40 years ago was: 'you can't go through life apologising'. However, hypocritically, when someone in England gets thumped, is racially abused or knocked over on the street, no apology is forthcoming.
That apart, Susana, although good advice has already been given, my own strategy is indeed detective work and have the purported office visited. Nine times out of ten, the advertiser will not be expecting a visit.
Object lesson: when I incidentally used to work in Madrid, my UK law firm sent me round - as a trainee - to spy on a rival City of London 'Magic Circle' firm of Solicitors that boasted a new base in Spain and check out the prestigious penthouse address. I searched the building high and low, then eventually found the door: it was a broom cupboard!
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| You're right | Aug 29, 2014 |
Enrique Cavalitto wrote: Susana E. Cano Méndez wrote:
What bothers me the most is changing our profession from time to time into detectives. Hi Susana, risk management is part of the role description of a freelance translator. Regards, Enrique [Subject edited by staff or moderator 2014-08-28 16:16 GMT]
Yes, you're right, Enrique.
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Tom Thumb wrote:
That apart, Susana, although good advice has already been given, my own strategy is indeed detective work and have the purported office visited. Nine times out of ten, the advertiser will not be expecting a visit.
Object lesson: when I incidentally used to work in Madrid, my UK law firm sent me round - as a trainee - to spy on a rival City of London 'Magic Circle' firm of Solicitors that boasted a new base in Spain and check out the prestigious penthouse address. I searched the building high and low, then eventually found the door: it was a broom cupboard!
LOL. Good idea, indeed! Thanks, Tom.
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