International translation of docs - is it a scam?

[Alain Ketterlin]

Chris Gonnerman <chris at gonnerman.org> writes:

> 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. [...]

The same has happened on the gcc list, where it has been considered a
scam. See, e.g.,

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-05/msg00046.html

and messages referenced therein.

-- Alain.