Inside the Shadowy Scheme: How Nigerian Scammers Masquerade as WritersWeekly to Defraud Translators and Writers

Filing a trademark infringement claim with Facebook is remarkably easy. It literally takes less then five minutes. And, Facebook moves FAST to remove those. (However, they don’t take other scam pages down as fast…if at all. In fact, Meta knowingly let scammers victimize Facebook and Instagram users.)

Here’s how the scam works:

1. The scammers “hire” writers to translate an article or book, or to re-type something.
2. The writers turn in the work.
3. The scammers tell the writers that they must confirm their bank account information before they can be paid.
4. The scammers tell the writers that they must send, via bank transfer, a few hundred dollars (or more) to the scammers to verify their account.
5. The scammers tell the writers that they’ll get their money back PLUS the payment for the work that was done.

Of course, the writers never get their money back, and never get paid for the work.

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