The other day I received an email inquiring about my translation services and to please send my rate per word. All seemed fine. I sent my rate and asked to see the document in order to give a proper quote. The sender got back to me and was in agreement with my rate, but then proceded to ask me to sign a contract but did not send me a copy of the document. I responded asking them once again to send me the document, even a portion of it, to get an idea of the subject matter and so forth and reiterated that I would not sign a contract without seeing it. The email I received in response went on to explain how they were a reputable agency, that the document was some 1 million words (a little odd), and that I would be given a period of 6 months to complete the translation. Scrolling down to the bottom of the page, expecting a copy of the document, I found nothing. Needless to say I wrote back explaining that I can not do business with them. Naturally I have not heard back.
This is amazing to me! This email was certainly cause to be on alert. First, the1 million words was a bit fishy and secondly it is definately a red flag when, even after asking twice, they refused to send a copy or even part of the document and I was still asked to sign a contract.
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is!
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