International translation of docs - is it a scam?
Chris Gonnerman
chris at gonnerman.org
Tue Jun 7 08:46:17 EDT 2011
On the 30th of May, I received an email from a man (I'll leave out his
name, but it was properly male) offering to translate the docs for the
gdmodule (which I maintain) into Belorussian. He wanted my approval,
and a link from my page to his. This seemed fair, so I told him to tell
me when it was ready.
This morning, I received an email from him that it was done. I looked
at the page, and it looked good. Of course, I don't read Belorussian,
but it had the right "shape" and linked to my downloads. But at the
same time, I received an email with a female sender name on it. It was
worded almost identically to the first email, but was offering to
translate my WConio page into Belorussian.
The Belorussian gdmodule page is here:
http://webhostingrating.com/libs/gdmodule-be
Now, webhostingrating.com is a site that rates web hosting providers,
and at least on the surface seems legitimate. I can't find any links
from their front page to the section with the Belorussian
translation(s), which strikes me odd.
What's going on here? Has anyone else been approached by these people?
-- Chris.
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