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The ProZ.com team has been made aware of a scammer or group of scammers pretending to represent "LanguageWire" in order to run pay-to-work scam.
The impersonators are using Upwork, WhatsApp and Telegram, and asking the service providers to pay a fee, deposit or guarantee in order to get assigned a project or receive payment for a completed job.
The real LanguageWire: - does not contact linguists via Telegram, Upwork or WhatsApp... See more
Hi, all,
The ProZ.com team has been made aware of a scammer or group of scammers pretending to represent "LanguageWire" in order to run pay-to-work scam.
The impersonators are using Upwork, WhatsApp and Telegram, and asking the service providers to pay a fee, deposit or guarantee in order to get assigned a project or receive payment for a completed job.
The real LanguageWire: - does not contact linguists via Telegram, Upwork or WhatsApp - will never ask to pay a fee, deposit or any type of amount in order to get paid for a job in return - works exclusively with vendors who are registered on their platform: agito.languagewire.com - never sends their clients content outside this platform - does not use PayPal to pay vendors
You can find the original report and the complete Scam Alerts Archive here:
Remember that, as a general rule, no legitimate client will ask you to make a payment, deposit or transfer of any kind in order to be assigned a project or to receive the payment for a project you have completed.
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