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Are Shanghai Youmi Translation Agency scammers?
Thread poster: Marsel Khisamutdinov
Marsel Khisamutdinov
Marsel Khisamutdinov
Russian Federation
Local time: 14:12
English to Russian
May 4, 2023

Their email is [email protected] (they don't have their own email host), they don't send a link to their website in their emails (and I failed to google it), and their "huge" project is hosted on OneForma? Is OneForma safe to be used with random suspicious-looking agencies?

Michael Newton
 
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Türkiye
Local time: 12:12
Member (2011)
English to Turkish
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I would be wary May 6, 2023

I remember reading some horror stories where people were lured to work on "big" projects using OneForma and were later simply given a myriad of excuses for not being paid...

[Edited at 2023-05-06 07:48 GMT]

Michael Newton
 


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