Tema: neverskite nigeriams (nigeriečiams)
Autorius: GK
Data: 2010-06-15 04:08:04
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If reply to an email offering you some translation jobs for a publishing company in Nigeria, they will tell you that the client is in the US or UK and that client is to pay you directly onto your PAYPAL account (because they only want translators with Paypal). Then you receive the money from a fake client in the US and start working on the text. Then the publisher in Nigeria will ask you to send the difference to him (once you deduct your fees for the translation) via Western Union.  

After about 3 weeks, you receive an email from PAYPAL telling that your account is frozen because the client did not receive the goods (i.e. the translation). Obviously the guy in the US is in touch with the one in Nigeria. Since PAYPAL automatically reimburses clients without checking anything, you get in the red on your PAYPAL account because they send the money back to the client in the US. Then you lose your money and you get collection agencies harassing you to give the money back;

IT IS BIG SCAM. I would not have worried had I not known about PAYPAL policy consisting of paying back the client no matter what. I told them the guy did receive the translation but they replied that services are not covered by their insurance, only goods.

Let other translators know, because people in Nigeria use different names to attract translators.