http://chi.proz.com/forums/ Recent translation forum posts en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:24:20 +0000 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:24:20 +0000 http://www.proz.com/faq support@proz.com (ProZ.com Support) support@proz.com (ProZ.com Support) Mogens Bjerg Scams http://chi.proz.com/post/3106991#3106991 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:36:00 +0000 <b>Forum:</b> Scams<br/><b>Topic:</b> <br/><b>Poster:</b> Mogens Bjerg<br/><br/>I have received a job proposal from Freelancer.Com:<br/><br/>Project Details<br />$10.00 – 30.00 USD<br /><br /> Bidding ends in 14 hours, 35 minutes<br />We are looking for a freelancers to provide .eml email files to support the training of a Mail Categorization model. The collected emails will be used to categorize email content into different categories based on the sender and subject line.<br /><br />Requirements:<br />- You will need to collect .eml files based on specific categories for any of the following 5 languages: Hebrew (he), Hindi (hi), Indonesian (id), Malay (ms), Thai (th)<br />- The emails must belong to one of the following main categories:<br />High Impact (e.g., travel updates, utility notices, one-time passwords, etc.)<br />Transactions (e.g., order confirmations, shipping notifications, etc.)<br />News<br />Social<br />Promotional<br />- Each main category has a set of sub-categories to ensure variety in the emails collected. You will be required to categorize the emails according to the details in the attached document.<br />- Submit the files in RAW .eml format.<br /><br />Payment:<br />- The rate for each approved email is 1 USD per email.<br /><br />****************************************************************<br /><br />I have to pay 23 $ for bidding, and they until now have had 847 bids. (Do the math :-)<br /><br />Probable a legal way to earn money, but still a scam.