No, once I told them I was onto them they stopped right away. Probably not worth their time to try to continue at that point!

Wow. Krista, that’s crazy! Just goes to show this scam has been around for a while. I’m glad you were smart — that red flag was pretty glaring, wasn’t it?

Did you ever hear from them again?

Hello,

Thanks for your email and response to the Proofreader ad. I am Harish Challa, I am a social entrepreneur and I have a work with the UNICEF ASIA projects. It is a material on Child Care, Parent Obligations and similar topics. The previous editions have been published in Bahasa and Chinese Language but the need right now is for the same material to come English language. I have transcribed the book to English but I am looking for a proofreader that can edit and correct the errors in the book. This project at hand demands some vital language learnings so I need your assistance to get this done ASAP. The book contain 95 pages, words counts is 25,000 to 35,000 ..written in english. I will like to know the cost to proofread and edit this for my usage.

However, I intend offering you the sum of $1000.00 for the proofreading because of the time frame so I will like to know if this works for you. I will need the book to be ready for publishing within 2 weeks from the day you received the book. I want to make it clear that I expect it to be carried out expertly. That is, ensuring that the book does not loose its original meaning in the course of editing; in as much you will prove yourself to be a reliable, trustworthy and above all able to meet up with my deadline; I will instruct my sponsor to proceed with your payment in full once I hear from you today as I will like you to have the payment before commencing your work so as to secure your service.

Upon receipt of the payment, I will instruct the publisher to mail you a copy of the book so you can commence your work. As soon as you are done with the proofreading, you will have to send the edited copy back to the publisher so he can commence the final publishing of the work. In the meantime, Kindly get back with the following information so I can start making arrangememt for your payment. moreso, I will need your phone number for a better communication.

Full Name:
Full House Address with zip code;
Phone number:
Acceptance of offer:

All I need from you is total honesty and timeliness. I will be waiting to hear from you.

Best Regard,
Harish Challa.

Amen, Maryann. The lack of any salutation is an automatic delete.

Oh, you’ll get it, Anne. I think it’s going to circulate. I find it interesting that they’re targeting freelancers now. It’s not as though our pockets are ridiculously deep.