Warning Against A German Thai Guy Offering Translationjobs

[gamle]

In December last year I was approached by a Thai company owned by a Thai who have been staying in Germany for many years and therefore offers Thai German translations and other languages translation. He had received an assignment from a German guy residing in the south of Thailand.

I met the owner once on another assignment, and therefore "trusted" that when the job was done it would also be honored with the promised payment. I WAS TOTALLY WRONG. The other assignment was done by another company who hired both him and me to do a job and where payment wasn't any problem.

The job he was now offering me, was in two parts, one part to translate an English text from a webpage promoting Koh Chang into two Scandinavian languages and the latter one to enter these translations into an administrator system for the webpage.

The Thai German guy informed me by phone, that he also got the job translated into Dutch and French by hiring some native speakers of these languages. Please PM me in case you have done this work and have received your pay or got the same problems as I.

The Thai German guy couldn't get access to the password to adm. system from that webpage, so I couldn't enter the translation on the webpage, but told me a few days later in an email to start at once, and that he would fulfill the payment once the translations were finished. I have my own company here and a workpermit, so I can accept this kind of work. But of course after delivering of the translations, no payment came. I felt so stupid, being misused by someone who one thought was trustworthy, as I normally demands upfront payment from a new client, but here I didn't follow my own rules.

Due to the regulation of the forum rules, I'm uncertain if I can write the name of his company to warn others. PM if you want it.

Any good ideas how to get the outstanding amount :-)

My landlord is a police-officer, but I don´t think the amount is big enough for him to care, as it only around 10k. I due know of others with connections through there GF that some officers like to COLLECT, but I think the collections amounts are bigger than mine.

So any input and suggestions will be appreciated with gratitude.

Edited January 20, 2010 by gamle

[cdnvic]

Three posts suggesting unlawful means of recovery were deleted. This kind of info is not to be distributed, nor solicited here. Suggest the poster hire a lawyer, or chalk it up to a lesson learned.