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Translation company displaying fake articles by Reuters and other major outlets
Thread poster: Mert Dirice
Mert Dirice
Mert Dirice
Türkiye
Local time: 18:12
English to Turkish
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Oct 28, 2020

Protranslate (.net) has a 'Media News' section on their website where they put fake articles by well-known sources like Reuters and MarketWatch:

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https://www.protranslate.net/en/media-news/

They also used to falsely claim that they've been featured on Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fortune, but I guess they deleted those after I contacted these magazines.
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I'm not sure whether they're a scam but I wanted to give everyone a heads up since this is all so fishy.

They're on Proz by the way:
https://www.proz.com/blueboard/4211
 
Michail Strijov
Michail Strijov  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 17:12
English to German
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Thank you for clarifying! Nov 6, 2020

Thank you for the info!

I stumbled upon their website and was really confused as to why Reuters would report the launch of Protranslate's services, and on top of that use this kind of wording: "Highly acclaimed online translation platform Protranslate is pleased to launch new document translation services…"

Mert Dirice
 


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