Woodstock wrote:
There must be some problem with the tags.
Here is the rest:
"...
I have an evaluation project in Germany which involves me
communicating with someone who understands English and German.
Could you please inform me if you are available for any day this
month?
More information about this evaluation is below.
I am an agent working with Secret Shopper® Europe.
We are currently searching for English speakers in EUROPE to help
us with our survey.
Currently, we have been paid to evaluate the services of a
prestigious company which
is the WESTERN UNION. " etc. etc. Quite a bit more detail is in the e-mail, but it is the typical advance-fee fraud pattern.
This is really getting out of hand, and I hope something can be done by the ProZ administration to stop this. Just deleting the profiles is not enough. I think that at this point law enforcement authorities should be notified because these guys often belong to bands of hardened criminals/organized crime, not just some doofus out for a quick dollar. Just check
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/topscams.asp or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Scams Why not alert new members when they register? That might discourage these scammers from registering in the first place in addition to alerting new members to these risks.