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| Scams | Too good to be true offer (payable in crypto) | Any developments? | [quote]Noah Koppers wrote:
I got the same offer
from Olivia Walmer@protonmail some time ago but
was very naive and didn’t know it might be a
scam. I translated the file, created an ac | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 15, 2023 | | Scams | Too good to be true offer (payable in crypto) | They are still at it... | They contacted me a couple of days ago. We are
still negotiating... | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 15, 2023 | | Scams | Scammer: tubemerchant | Same reply, down to the arrival day! | I too played along and got exactly the same reply
as George Nikola, the only difference being Lisbon
airport rather than Greece.
[quote]George
Nikola wrote:
I went a step further and | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Dec 10, 2017 | | Scams | Flagging a possible scam | same here | I sniffed it out straight away too, I just wanted
it to report to the wider Proz audience.
And that
bore fruit as thanks to the discussion here I've
forwarded it to the anti-phishing dept | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 26, 2017 | | Scams | Flagging a possible scam | Very helpful | Thanks for the link, I've forwarded the message to
the anti-phishing dept of the US
IRS
[quote]Luximar Arenas Petty wrote:
Here
a link that could shed some light. [/quote] | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 25, 2017 | | Scams | Flagging a possible scam | Not through Proz | [quote]Natalie wrote:
Have you received this
through ProZ.com?
If yes, please urgently submit
a support request providing all necessary
info.
You may also provide here the IP of th | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 25, 2017 | | Scams | Flagging a possible scam | | Hello everyone,
I've just received the
following e-mail (with an attachment named
new-2017-W8BEN.pdf which I did not open), that
looks suspiciously like a
scam.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
D | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 25, 2017 | | Money matters | Rate: 0.015USD/Chinese word, is this a joke? | min wage | I have a hunch Samuel was being ironic... | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 25, 2014 | | Money matters | The image and the profit of a translator - Quiz for my thesis | figura | it means a mix of "image, personality, way of
life, professional stance" and more; it's got
nothing to do with numbers. It can also be
interpreted as "the way a translator and his/her
| Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 25, 2014 | | Trados support | Workbench error 80001 | thanks! | This error was driving me round the bend, but
reorganizing the TM did the trick! | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 22, 2014 | | Trados support | Trados 2007: When I right-click a Word file, there´s no Translate with SDLX option | Did you get the contextual menu back? | [quote]Maria Virginia Ariztoy wrote:
Yes, I am
doing that in fact. But I thought that maybe
someone had encountered the same problem and had
an idea that could help. It is a useful shor | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 18, 2011 | | Money matters | Help "deciphering" a bank receipt in Chinese | | Hello,
I would appreciate some assistance on
the following matter:
I got a payment from a
Beijing-based agency; however, due to bank fees,
the amount I received was USD 40 less than | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 28, 2011 | | Money matters | Resident in Portugal, Swiss client; VAT implications? | Charging VAT outside Europe? | [quote]Christopher Patrick Fitzsimons wrote:
I
am only required to charge VAT to companies and
individuals in Portugal, to individuals within the
EU and to everyone outside the EU (comp | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Jul 21, 2011 | | Trados support | ATagEditor file won't open with default or custom ini file | file format | a readme in html format | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Jun 27, 2011 | | Trados support | ATagEditor file won't open with default or custom ini file | | Hello,
I have a TTX file that according to the
client I am supposed to open using the default
HTML4.ini file.
Upon opening the TTX I get the
"usual" TagEditor message "The tag settings | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Jun 27, 2011 | | Office applications | Word 2003 extremely slow after installing Studio 2009 | | Hello,
a few months ago I installed SDL Trados
Studio 2009 on a laptop running Windows 7 with 6
GB of RAM.
Since the installation, Word 2003 has
been very slow to start and shut down, | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Apr 21, 2011 | | Trados support | Created By/Changed by in Trados - How to change? | when editing a 100% match | I would think that your userID only shows up as
"Changed by" when you actually edit a 100% match. | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 21, 2010 | | Trados support | Created By/Changed by in Trados - How to change? | An observation... | I don't know the answer to your question but,
given that you are editing a fuzzy match and not a
100% match, it makes sense that your userID
appears under the "Created by " header, doesn't | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 21, 2010 | | Scams | A new scam? | I received the same message... | ... a couple of days ago. I kindly declined the
offer and forwarded it to a contact at Lionbridge.
Unfortunately this person is out of office till
next week and therefore I have not had an | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Sep 16, 2010 | | Italian | Lavorare in Italia con sede all'estero | Domicilio, non residenza (e 6 mesi + 1 giorno) | Io vivo all'estero (Azzorre) per oltre 6 mesi
all'anno e pago le tasse qui.
Ufficialmente sono
ancora residente in Italia (e non mi sono mai
iscritto all'AIRE); comunque secondo le
in | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Jul 19, 2010 | | Off topic | Another World Cup translation blunder | Unlikely I know but what if... | it were an intentional mistranslation... just to
stir up things a little bit.
After all (some)
English fans taunt the Germans chanting "2 World
Wars and 1 World Cup"... and the tabloids w | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Jun 27, 2010 | | Being independent | Which idyllic country/island in the world does have fast Internet access? | it's fast enough for me | [quote] Must be a nice place to live...
Just a
note about the internet connection, though.
300Kb/sec is not fast, it's wretchedly slow for
those who care about this sort of stuff. I'd sa | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 21, 2010 | | Being independent | Which idyllic country/island in the world does have fast Internet access? | The Azores! | I've been living and freelancing in the Azores for
the last 3.5 years and I can wholeheartedly
recommend it! Best months are spring and summer,
as the winter and autumn periods tend to be | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 21, 2010 | | Business issues | Audiovisual translation rates | 30% sounds reasonable | Yes, that's my point.
If it were no different
from a "normal" translation, then normal rates
would apply.
But in case of "fiddling" then I was
also thinking 30% was
reasonable.
Th | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 4, 2010 | | Italian | Conversione da tariffa a riga/pagina a tariffa a parola (tedesco) | ottimo calcolatore... | [quote]Valeria Francesconi wrote:
Ciao
Giovanna,
prova con
questo:
http://www.amtrad.it/feewizardol.php
a me è di grandissimo aiuto.
Valeria
[/quote]
Ottima risor | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 4, 2010 | | Business issues | Audiovisual translation rates | | Hello,
how do "normal" translation rates
compare with audiovisual translation?
What would
be a reasonable % increase for the translation of
voiceover scripts, taking into account issue | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 4, 2010 | | Trados support | SDL Synergy Error on Windows 7 | XP emulator mode | I have SDL Trados 2007 running under Windows 7 Pro
and it works fine. The only problematic module was
Sinergy which I uninstalled. Both Tag Editor and
SDLX work smoothly in my case.
If yo | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Dec 19, 2009 | | Trados support | SDL Synergy Error on Windows 7 | Problem "solved" | Thanks,
In the end I simply uninstelled
Sinergy.
On the SDL knowledgebase they say it's a
compatibility problem between Synergy and
64-bit-based systems. There is a patch but only
| Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 30, 2009 | | Trados support | SDL Synergy Error on Windows 7 | | Hello,
I just installed SDL Trados 2007 on a
new laptop running Windows 7.
While Workbench and
SDLX work fine, every time I reboot my PC I get an
error message from Windows saying that | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 27, 2009 | | Scams | Translators please beware of fake email accounts | Just received a "project offer"... | Dear Tina,
thanks for pointing this out.
I,
together with many others, have just received the
following:
############
Dears,
We have
project need to be translated from English to | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 29, 2009 | | Spanish | vivo en Portugal, tengo que cobrar IVA a empresas españolas? | Não é preciso :-) | Hola,
yo trabajo mucho con una empresa de
Barcelona y no cobro IVA
(Caderneta de recibos:
REGIME DE IVA: Isento - Art. 6)
G. | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 26, 2008 | | Italian | Qual era il vostro programma TV preferito, da piccoli? | un altro paio di titoli... | oltre a quelli già citati.
Ve li ricordate
Sampei (il pescatore) e soprattutto il mitico
"Conan, il ragazzo del futuro"?
C'era poi una
serie americana che non ho mai visto sulla RAI m | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Oct 17, 2007 | | Trados support | SDLX - Can anybody recommend it? | Confirming 100% autopropagated | "When I come further in my file, I confirm each
segment once translated. When a new segment is
translated, it is "autopropagated" in the whole
file. So, when I come to this very segment (l | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 2, 2007 | | Trados support | SDLX - Can anybody recommend it? | DVX codes / format painting | Hello Alexey,
I'm not familiar with DVX so I
might be missing your point here...
"One
crucial difference is that the source formatting
in DVX is represented by codes (figures in
| Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 2, 2007 | | Trados support | SDLX - Can anybody recommend it? | Auto-propagate | Hi Sylvain,
I'm not quite sure I understand
your problem...
From your posting it seems that
you confirm (i.e., turn them to "blue" by hitting
Return) the 100% autopropagated.
This i | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 2, 2007 | | Trados support | SDLX - Can anybody recommend it? | Auto-propagate | Hello Sylvain,
just go to Tools > Options >
Auto-propagate tab and select the Enable
Auto-propagate check box. You can choose the level
of autopropagation (personally I use 60%).
This< | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | May 2, 2007 | | Trados support | MS Word constantly crashing when using Workbench | Removing the KB update did the trick | Thanks a lot Jerzy,
I opted for the quick fix
(removing the MS Office update KB917334) and it
now works perfectly.
Thanks
again...
[Edited at 2006-08-12 08:45] | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Aug 11, 2006 | | Trados support | MS Word constantly crashing when using Workbench | some answers... | i) Anything special (end of paragraph, end of
page, in a table) about segments that
crash?
not as far as I can see. Sometimes it
crashes at the end of a paragraph but not
always
| Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Aug 11, 2006 | | Trados support | MS Word constantly crashing when using Workbench | MS Word constantly crashing when using Workbench | Hello,
I'm translating a MS word file in
Trados. Word keeps crashing on particular segments
(not on all segments).
I'm using MS Word 2003
(ITALIAN) and SDL Trados Translator's Workbe | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Aug 11, 2006 | | Money matters | Reducing rates | current recession | That's exactly the strategy they tried with me,
reasons being the current economic recession,
fierce and increasing competition and a general
trend towards reducing rates that is apparentl | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 8, 2005 | | Money matters | Reducing rates | Reducing rates | Hello everyone,
I just received a reply from an
agency I contacted some time ago in which they
asked me to revise my rates downwards so that they
could envisage the possibility of futur | Gianluigi Desogus, PhD | Nov 8, 2005 | Translation industry discussion forumsOpen discussion on topics related to translation, interpreting and localization | Wordfast Pro | Translation Memory Software for Any Platform
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