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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