Tips for fellow translators, interpreters, and language professionals to help them vet potential clients and avoid being scammed or left with unpaid invoices.
I woke up this morning to an invoice over $500.00 in my email inbox to my personal PayPal account, sent via PayPal. It looked real. It felt real. All the links were pointing to the correct URLs. The email didn’t seem to have been spoofed. Even the funky letter/number combination
An old scam is making the rounds again. The scammers send out fake “employment/job offers”. Find out how these scams work.
This new-ish scam seems to target anyone with a business website, that is, organizations, corporations, businesses, freelancers, etc. The scammers send a warning note through the website contact form or via the stated contact email address. The note contains a warning that the website owner allegedly violated the Digital Millennium
Consider the following scenario: You receive an email message from the HR department of a large international corporation inviting you to a job interview. The company is looking for a language professional with precisely your skill set. The offer sounds perfect, almost too good to be true. So, you look
I recently got interviewed for the podcast of ATA’s Spanish Language Division. I chatted with Gloria Cabrejos about the circuitous career path that led me to become a patent translator and about scams that target language professionals. Listen to the SPD podcast interview here.
The recording for my webinar on cybersecurity essentials for language pros is now available on demand. To view the webinar and receive the handouts, visit the NCTA page here. Specific topics covered include: Passwords, passphrases, and hacking Internet security: routers, Wifi, and VPNs Securing other (mobile) devices HIPAA, remote interpreting
Recently, I presented a webinar on scams targeting language professionals. The webinar is now available on demand, for free. As announced during the webinar, I’ll be answering some questions that were asked during the Q&A at the end of the webinar. Q regarding CV theft scam: Why do you call
My webinar “Don’t Fall for It! Scams Targeting Language Professionals” is now available on demand for free. Click here to watch now. Click here for this webinar’s resource handout. A list of questions that were asked during the Q&A at the end of the webinar is answered here. Recorded: July
So, the following arrived in my inbox today, allegedly sent from me, to me. Further down in that longwinded text, they demand a payment in Bitcoin to release my email domain from the hack. I immediately checked the header to see whether my account has indeed been hacked. Of course
