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Thread poster: Salah Mamoun
Salah Mamoun
Salah Mamoun
Sudan
Oct 26, 2017

A lady named Astrid Henrikson approached me in fb claiming she is the office manager of Deichmanske bibliotek, Oslo - Norway. i accepted her friend's request. A few days later, as my profile says am a translator, she offered me a translation job of 4500 words @ Euro 0.06 per word Arabic to English. She promised to send me my money by check within 10 days from receiving the translated file. I finished the job three days ahead of deadline. It was the first time for me to deal with a foreign client... See more
A lady named Astrid Henrikson approached me in fb claiming she is the office manager of Deichmanske bibliotek, Oslo - Norway. i accepted her friend's request. A few days later, as my profile says am a translator, she offered me a translation job of 4500 words @ Euro 0.06 per word Arabic to English. She promised to send me my money by check within 10 days from receiving the translated file. I finished the job three days ahead of deadline. It was the first time for me to deal with a foreign client, so I was keen to impress her. She received the translated file and next day unfriended and blocked me. I just want to let you know about this scammer! ▲ Collapse
 
Sheila Wilson
Sheila Wilson  Identity Verified
Spain
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Member (2007)
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Oh, dear; that's so sad Oct 30, 2017

Salah Mamoun wrote:
A lady named Astrid Henrikson approached me in fb claiming she is the office manager of Deichmanske bibliotek, Oslo - Norway. i accepted her friend's request. A few days later, as my profile says am a translator, she offered me a translation job of 4500 words @ Euro 0.06 per word Arabic to English. She promised to send me my money by check within 10 days from receiving the translated file. I finished the job three days ahead of deadline. It was the first time for me to deal with a foreign client, so I was keen to impress her. She received the translated file and next day unfriended and blocked me. I just want to let you know about this scammer!

Sorry to hear you got treated so badly, Salah.

I know it's too late for this job, but to avoid it happening in the future I recommend you review all the scams in the Scam Centre here, and also study the Wiki(s) on Risk Management. Links are: https://www.proz.com/about/translator-scam-alerts and http://wiki.proz.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Risk_management
 


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