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AATII (no, not argentinian legit AATI)
Thread poster: Susana E. Cano Méndez
Ashish (HIN,ENG) Nadia (ITA)
Ashish (HIN,ENG) Nadia (ITA)
Italy
Local time: 08:04
Italian to Hindi
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LEGIT OR NOT THEY HAVE PUT UP NAMES WITHOUT PERMISSION Apr 15, 2016

NNever gave my consent for my name on https://www.aatii.com/

They seem to be in British Columbia
I see that on the basis of the competent forum that they cite on their website

https://aatii.com/es/t/conditionsofUse

You may not use AATII.COM for any illegal or unauthorized
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NNever gave my consent for my name on https://www.aatii.com/

They seem to be in British Columbia
I see that on the basis of the competent forum that they cite on their website

https://aatii.com/es/t/conditionsofUse

You may not use AATII.COM for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws) as well as the laws of Canada and the Province of British Columbia.



Contact info: +1 604 370 2171 or via [email protected].
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João Roque Dias
João Roque Dias
Portugal
Local time: 07:04
English to Portuguese
REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR FALSE DATABASE Apr 15, 2016

1. I have never contacted you.

2. You have never contacted me.

3. I have never asked / applied to be listed in your "database".

Shame on you, AATII.


 
Claudia Figueiredo
Claudia Figueiredo  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 07:04
English to Portuguese
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REMOVE MY NAME/DATA! Apr 15, 2016

I don't know who you are and have never requested to be included in your website.

Claudia Figueiredo


 
XXXphxxx (X)
XXXphxxx (X)  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:04
Portuguese to English
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Remove my name Apr 15, 2016

I have never heard of you and most of the data you have on my profile is incorrect. Not least the so-called rates I charge.

Remove my details immediately.


 
Wolf Kux
Wolf Kux  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 04:04
Member (2006)
German to Portuguese
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Orders Apr 15, 2016

Susana E. Cano Méndez wrote:

Catherine V. Howard wrote:


** I urge other Proz.com members to check if their identity has been stolen by this outfit as well. **


I have just checked, my name is not there, but it's a bit hard to tell, because names are not in alphabetical order inside each letter and search by name is not possible, or am I wrong?


Somewhere on their page there is an option to put in alphabetical ascending / descending order, *** BUT *** this does not work seamless.


 
Ekaterina Kroumova
Ekaterina Kroumova  Identity Verified
French to Bulgarian
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Translation Directory Apr 15, 2016

I think your profiles have been taken from the Translation Directory site. I am not registered there, so my name is not on AATII's list. I have checked for a few colleagues of mine, though, and they are on both sites. Try to remember if you have ever registered with Translation Directory.

 
Michal Fabian
Michal Fabian  Identity Verified
Canada
Local time: 03:04
Dutch to Slovak
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Remove my name immediately. Apr 15, 2016

Also, AATII, I would like to play a game: can you name *one* thing that is *legal* about your enterprise?

 
Angela Dickson (X)
Angela Dickson (X)  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:04
French to English
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Permission Apr 15, 2016

AATII wrote:

Hi everyone,

We'd like to thank everyone for your interest in AATII and our contest. We are a young company who soft-launched a few months ago, and #IAmATranslator was created to announce our presence with a splash.

Regarding this contest, many companies leverage social media for user-generated content (UGC), including:

  1. Marc Jacobs: #CastMeMarc
  2. Infiniti: #Q30Challenge
  3. Mint: #MintMyMoment


UGC social media contests are great. They get users (and partners) excited about products, services or platforms. More importantly, they create buzz and recognition for contest entrants.

As for why we would create this contest? Very simple. As stated, we're a young company, and we want to build conversation amongst translators. Giving a prize of USD$1,000 for eight champion translations is a great way to build goodwill—and we hope when the winners are announced that we accomplish our goal.

Regarding AATII itself, we want to be very clear. AATII is an early stage translation platform built so freelancers can negotiate and collaborate with their clients. We are also a continuous work in progress that earnestly believes the art of translation can do incredible things. This is why on Twitter and elsewhere we do our darnedest to promote incredible translators even if they have yet to use our platform.

This is an industry in which freelancers work very hard, and get very little recognition. One of our goals with this contest was to showcase superstar talent that would otherwise go unheralded.

Our deep pardons if there's been any confusion whatsoever about the intent of our contest. We hope this post resolves questions on the nature of its purpose.

EDIT: For further clarification, there's two entities known as AATII:

  • Alliance of Applied Translators and Interpreters International: This is a commercial company that runs the platform, and is offering the contest.
  • Association of Applied Translators and Interpreters Internationa This is a registered non-profit devoted to translation advocacy and education. Its registered non-profit number is 907450-3.



    [Edited at 2016-04-14 21:09 GMT]


I have nothing to say about the contest (I feel I have plenty of recognition, and have no interest in translating your marketing materials for free), but I do need you to take my name out of your database immediately and will be seeking legal advice if this doesn't happen.

It would be useful if you could put a name to your forum postings.


 
Charlie Bavington
Charlie Bavington  Identity Verified
Local time: 07:04
French to English
Not only TD? Apr 15, 2016

Ekaterina Kroumova wrote:

I think your profiles have been taken from the Translation Directory site. I am not registered there, so my name is not on AATII's list. I have checked for a few colleagues of mine, though, and they are on both sites. Try to remember if you have ever registered with Translation Directory.


While searching for myself, I saw a few people not on TD who are on AATII's database. I know you were only trying to help, but I'm not sure we can take this as a rule.

I couldn't find myself on the database, but I did get the email as in the OP - anyone else in that position? (or am I on the database, just not in the right place - as has been pointed out, the search order has anomalies. Google search with "site:aatii.com" doesn't seem to produce results at all....)


 
Maria Kopnitsky
Maria Kopnitsky  Identity Verified
United States
Spanish to English
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Please contact AATII to request removal of your data Apr 15, 2016

Dear all,

Thanks for reporting this. Site staff have been checking the information available in the AATII directory, which seems to have been pulled from public data available on translation portals. So far there is no indication that these details are coming from ProZ.com, and various users have suggested a connection between the data available on AATII and the information publicly available at TranslationDirectory.com.
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Dear all,

Thanks for reporting this. Site staff have been checking the information available in the AATII directory, which seems to have been pulled from public data available on translation portals. So far there is no indication that these details are coming from ProZ.com, and various users have suggested a connection between the data available on AATII and the information publicly available at TranslationDirectory.com.

If you are listed in AATII’s directory and do not wish to be, I would suggest following Ashish (HIN,ENG) Nadia (ITA)’s advice above and contacting AATII through the channels mentioned at https://aatii.com/es/t/conditionsofUse :
If you have any questions, or feel that we are not abiding by the Terms, you should contact us immediately via telephone at +1 604 370 2171 or via [email protected].”

A message will be sent to all site users who have subscribed such alerts suggesting that they verify if they appear in that directory, and urging them to contact AATII directly if they wish to be removed from that database.

Best regards,

Maria
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DLyons
DLyons  Identity Verified
Ireland
Local time: 07:04
Spanish to English
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I strongly disagree with Maria Apr 15, 2016

Maria Kopnitsky wrote:

Dear all,

[contact] AATII through the channels mentioned at https://aatii.com/es/t/conditionsofUse :
If you have any questions, or feel that we are not abiding by the Terms, you should contact us immediately via telephone at +1 604 370 2171 or via [email protected].”


Maria


Never contact a scammer about anything!!!

Their host site has an abuse report form http://publicdomainregistry.com/report-abuse-complain/
so complain there and try to get them taken down. I say "they" but imagine it's primarily a one-man operation by "Clint" Cheng https://www.facebook.com/clint.cheng1

You could also send a letter of complaint to the Canadian authorities http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/detach/en/d/251 (thanks Łukasz).


 
Charlie Bavington
Charlie Bavington  Identity Verified
Local time: 07:04
French to English
To reiterate... Apr 15, 2016

Maria Kopnitsky wrote:

users have suggested a connection between the data available on AATII and the information publicly available at TranslationDirectory.com.



...and to avoid people thinking "I'm fine, I'm not on TD so I won't be on AATII", there are definitely profiles on AATII for people who are NOT on TranslationDirectory.

I'm not saying AATII didn't harvest data from TD, but I am saying they appear to have data they probably did not get from TD.
(I suppose it is not inconceivable that the people in question deleted their TD profiles, but at least one of them is speaking at the BP16 Conference so I'd be surprised if she had the time or inclination to do so today.)


 
Michael Beijer
Michael Beijer  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:04
Member (2009)
Dutch to English
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Thanks for the tip! Apr 15, 2016

DLyons wrote:

Maria Kopnitsky wrote:

Dear all,

[contact] AATII through the channels mentioned at https://aatii.com/es/t/conditionsofUse :
If you have any questions, or feel that we are not abiding by the Terms, you should contact us immediately via telephone at +1 604 370 2171 or via [email protected].”


Maria


Never contact a scammer about anything!!!

Their host site has an abuse report form http://publicdomainregistry.com/report-abuse-complain/
so complain there and try to get them taken down. I say "they" but imagine it's primarily a one-man operation by "Clint" Cheng https://www.facebook.com/clint.cheng1

You could also send a letter of complaint to the Canadian authorities http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/detach/en/d/251 (thanks Łukasz).


I just sent in a complaint via http://publicdomainregistry.com/report-abuse-complain/ … and I urge everyone else here to do the same.

Michael


 
Paulinho Fonseca
Paulinho Fonseca  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 04:04
Member (2011)
English to Portuguese
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Another case of theft Apr 15, 2016

It is again an illegal appropriation of professional reference and I am sure that by clicking on any name, only one service provider (for each language )will be on the other side doing jobs. It is the classical case, creating many profiles to filter offers.

I has to be reported immediately and the site must be shut down. One can't affirm their real address or location. They will keep digging for more profiles.


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It is again an illegal appropriation of professional reference and I am sure that by clicking on any name, only one service provider (for each language )will be on the other side doing jobs. It is the classical case, creating many profiles to filter offers.

I has to be reported immediately and the site must be shut down. One can't affirm their real address or location. They will keep digging for more profiles.


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DLyons
DLyons  Identity Verified
Ireland
Local time: 07:04
Spanish to English
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Google maps has an excellent annotation function Apr 15, 2016

AATII is at:

#300-5900 No. 3 Road,
Richmond BC, V6X 3P7
Vancouver, British Columbia

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AATII is at:

#300-5900 No. 3 Road,
Richmond BC, V6X 3P7
Vancouver, British Columbia

https://www.google.fr/maps/place/5900%20No%203%20Rd,%20Richmond,%20BC%20V6X%203P7,%20Canada/@49.1705372,-123.1382557,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x5486753359288245:0x58cd2ce679aed994?hl=en

I've added them (it's under review by Google Maps). Once approved, you might like to comment there.

[Edited at 2016-04-15 15:00 GMT]

[Edited at 2016-04-15 15:08 GMT]
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