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Bette Harris scammer with email [email protected]
Thread poster: Tanya Ronnen
Tanya Ronnen
Tanya Ronnen
United Kingdom
Spanish to English
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Jul 28, 2020

Be careful if you receive an email with a Betty Harris ([email protected]). She claims to want you to translate a document from University of Madrid (or elsewhere). Mine was about agriculture and they needed it in a month for a presentation. DON'T buy it I asked to be paid 20% upfront and to transfer to my PayPal however she kept asking for weird information like my bank account , ssrn (whatever that is), address. .. written also in very bad English. Don't give them your details! She con... See more
Be careful if you receive an email with a Betty Harris ([email protected]). She claims to want you to translate a document from University of Madrid (or elsewhere). Mine was about agriculture and they needed it in a month for a presentation. DON'T buy it I asked to be paid 20% upfront and to transfer to my PayPal however she kept asking for weird information like my bank account , ssrn (whatever that is), address. .. written also in very bad English. Don't give them your details! She contacted me through here so please block this email address. Thanks ▲ Collapse


María Belén Di Memmo
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 02:29
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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@Tanya Jul 28, 2020

Have you reported this? https://www.proz.com/about/translator-scam-alerts
 
María Belén Di Memmo
María Belén Di Memmo  Identity Verified
Argentina
Local time: 22:29
Member (2019)
English to Spanish
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I have just received the same email Jul 29, 2020

She asks me for the translation of the same document. I found her email in this page
http://wiki.proz.com/wiki/index.php/Translator_scam_alert_reports#March_27.2C_2014:_Probable_scam_reported_on_site_forums


Tanya Ronnen wrote:

Be careful if you receive an email with a Betty Harris ([email protected]). She claims to want you to translate a document from University of Madrid (or elsewhere). Mine was about agriculture and they needed it in a month for a presentation. DON'T buy it I asked to be paid 20% upfront and to transfer to my PayPal however she kept asking for weird information like my bank account , ssrn (whatever that is), address. .. written also in very bad English. Don't give them your details! She contacted me through here so please block this email address. Thanks


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