Dear Jovan
Odorovic,
Having been
informed by both Member and GoMember colleagues, we wish to alert you
to a new form of 'Nigerian scams' usurping the website of www.wordsolutions.net.
These crooks
contact translators via their personal contact form (and, as we have previously
explained, we cannot read personal emails sent via our servers
without this violating your privacy).
For instance,
this e-mail received:
MESSAGE DIRECTLY SENT
BY CLICKING YOUR MAIL LINK
[Private and unchecked mailing!]
Sender
IP: 41.219.147.90 [Port: 2147]
Date: 05/01/2009 - 15H43 [BE time]
(Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) / en-us)
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Sender
: John Francis (wordsolutions30@yahoo.com)
Recipient : xxx (xxx@gmail.com)
Attachment : --- ---
Subject : GoTranslators -Ttranslation job
We currently
need translators for English to Greek translations respectively.Please
let me know if you"re interested.Thanks
Regards,
John
WORD TRANSLATIONS SOLUTIONS
www.wordsolutions.net
Phone:6462916552
Fax:1-1455-245-564
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This
"Nigerian scam" is an old swindler process.
Mauritius
IP, false name, phone, address, surrealistic text, ...
Crooks
of this type can get away with it for a long time before being caught
in the act because they use a number of plausible addresses and a number
of Internet Service Providers all at the same time.
Even so, we can try and track them down by cross-checking…
As a community, we can be sure that our actions will have greater influence!
If you are
one of the people who have been swindled by this kind of crook, please
do not hesitate in sending us the headers
of the first message received "from" GoTranslators
(in blue below) when you were in contact with them and any other details
which might help investigators to prevent these crooks from doing any
more damage (please e-mail luc@gotranslators.com).
Example (as
above):
From:
orchardvaletrust@aol.com
Date: 09/01/2008
- 01H23 [BE time]
To: (X)
Subject: GoTranslators - Translation
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MESSAGE DIRECTLY SENT
BY CLICKING YOUR MAIL LINK
[Private and unchecked mailing!]
Sender
IP: 41.219.243.24 [Port: 2036]
Date: 09/01/2008 - 01H23 [BE time]
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127
Firefox/2.0.0.11 TB Newsbar / en-us,en;q=0.5)
----------------------
Sender
: Freebury Bob (orchardvaletrust@aol.com)
Recipient : You (youremail@yourprovider.com)
Attachment : --- ---
We advise
you also to re-read our file: A to Z advice for freelance translators
on client relations. It contains lots of advice which will help
you to avoid bad professional encounters.
You can consult
our BAD PAYERS Tool which contains a list of all the
places where you can find out about the dubious clients who are running
wild in our profession.
Using the
header, you canalso form an initial impression of the seriousness of the
request made and, potentially, guard against any hidden attempt at fraud
on the part of your correspondent. How?
The
GoTranslators header features the Sender IP (for instance: Internet
Provider Sender
IP: 83.229.85.236)
address for the person contacting you. It is worth checking
the address and its actual origin in order to compare the address with
what your correspondent tells you about himself… In IT jargon, this
is known as a "WhoIs" request.
There are a number of free software packages that can be used with a Windows
operating system. From amongst these, the GoTranslators team has selected
Trace Route (http://www.d3tr.de/,
free download from: http://www.gotranslators.com/Upload/TraceRoute218.zip).
This software allows the user to identify the origin of any Sender IP
address.
Once downloaded (1.55 Mb), copy the program to any directory (*) and run
it...
(*) Do NOT
store the executable on the desktop. It will create additional files and
folders.
It is now installed. To uninstall it, all you need to do is delete the
directory.
To use it while you are connected to the internet:
1-
Copy (CTRL-C) the IP address of the message received.
2-
Paste (CTRL-V) the address into TraceRoute as shown below:
3-
Click on the "Whois and more" tab
4-
Click on the "as IP#" button
You then get a series of details that may seem complicated at first
glance but they give you detailed information on the origin of the server
used by your correspondent (e.g.: below).
Equally, this information allows you to find the e-mail address of
the person responsible for the server in case of clear abuse :
Finally,
in some cases, the data will refer you to other "WhoIs" sites,
or you can refine your search in order to gauge your correspondent a little
better:
An Irish
correspondent using a Nigerian server?... There really is some doubt as
to the seriousness of the message!
Please do not hesitate in using this tool in its freeware version
– it provides an excellent service every day in identifying and
disabling the main dangers of the internet!
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