I recommend that everyone should share bad experience with company,
and I think it is O.K. to share bad experience with company if it is
based on true facts. As I have sent one "Fraud Warning" on December
of 2005, I have indicated Elrom/JCS Group in New York for a project I
have completed with many Korean translators. By the way, the project
was translation of movie subtitle. They have promised $50.00 per
hour for the project, but they only paid me $50.00 per project. I
had to spend about 8 hours on one project. I have gained valuable
experience from this company that I would set a guideline to accept
translation project, which is over $1,000.00, only if a contractor
would sign an agreement in advance. It is also very important for
the international transactions. Since I translate Japanese and
German too, I have received project request from England and China
also. I have the following examples of spam messages for translation
request, so that you should not waste your valuable time:

Example 1:
____________________________________________________________________
Dear Kipyo,

We got your information from one of the freelance website.



We are currently looking for a highly qualified translator to work
with us on an English-German proofreading project, the details of
which are as followed:



Areas of Specialization: Household Apparatus Operation Manual

Language pairs: English-German

Word count: 25650 source words (98Pages)

Format: Office word & PDF

Pay offered: 1800 EURO

Turnaround: 15 working days

Estimated starting date: 3rd of June



If you are interested, please find the attached sample pairs, make a
test proofreading and get back to us NLT 31st of May.


Thanks and look forward to your earliest reply.

Kind regards,

Johnny

Shanghai Bluelingo Corporation
Suite 2402, Tower 20, Riverside Plaza
88 Hailun Rd, Shanghai, P.R.C.
Tel:+86-21-65633386 Ext 868
Fax:+86-21-65632830
Mobile: 13818833285
E-mail:johnny@...
Http://www.bluelingo.com.cn
____________________________________________________________________
Example 2

Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 14:35:39 +0100 (BST)
From: "BEN SHARK" <ben_s02@...> Add to Address Book Add
Subject: Re: Translator Needed.....ENGLISH - GERMAN
To: "Hahn K" <tli7773@...>
Greetings,
Thanks for the understanding you have rendered in this
transaction . I called the person that is surpose to send the payment
to you and she told me that she has a terrible problem right now.
His only SON died which he has to get all the necessary funeral
arrangement done . So i want you to know that the package for the
Payment will be delivered to you next week by the special grace of
GOD. I want you to bear with me till the arrival of the Payment.As
soon as you received the payment next week,i want you to proceed to
the insturction.

Have a Nice day , GOD BLESS.
Regards...............


Ben Shark
216 Banbury Rd,
Oxford, OX2 7DL
07031908951
ben_s02@...
_____________________________________________________________________

For example 1, the project manager sent me a sample translation for
him to approve. Therefore, I called to his cell phone and asked him
if he would sign a contract for a payment term. He promised me that
he would reply me by e-mail, but he did not.

The example 2 sent me a prior message indicating that he would pay
me $5,000 in advance and return back the overpayment, and I could
find out that it was a scam.

I think it is wise to receive a deposit to start a project also if
it deems to be an international transaction. That way you know if
they are serious about the project or not.


I wish that my examples would save your time and money to succeed
as a prosperous translator.


Sincerely,


Kipyo Han