A reminder — and, unfortunately, not the last one I hoped I would have to write — that someone is still impersonating me and contacting authors using my name, professional background and credentials.

Last weekend, another author got in touch after receiving an unsolicited email from someone claiming to be me and offering to translate his book into Spanish. Fortunately, he had already seen one of my previous warnings about this scam and decided to contact me through a verified channel before taking the conversation any further.

So yes: speaking out helps.

When something like this happens, it can be tempting to think that posting about it will not make much difference. But making these scams visible creates a public trail. It gives potential victims something to find when they search for a translator’s name, an email address or part of the message they have received. In this particular case, that visibility was precisely what allowed an author to recognise that something might be wrong and check with me directly.

For that reason, I want to leave this information here as clearly as possible. I do not send unsolicited emails to authors offering to translate their books into Spanish or Catalan. I work mainly with publishers, agencies and established professional contacts, and I do not approach authors out of the blue promising translations or proposing deals on their books.

If you have received an unexpected message from someone claiming to be Scheherezade Surià López, especially one offering to translate your book, please treat it with caution. Do not reply to the message, click on any links, download attachments, send manuscripts, provide personal or financial information, or make any payments until you have verified who you are dealing with.

My official professional email address is info@las1001traducciones.com. If a message supposedly from me comes from a different address, please do not assume it is genuine. The safest option is to contact me independently at that address, through my official website or via my verified LinkedIn profile and ask whether the message actually came from me.

If it did not, I would also be very grateful if you could send me the details of the fraudulent contact — particularly the sender’s email address, screenshots of the message and any other information that may help identify the person behind it. This gives me evidence that I can use when reporting the impersonation to the relevant services or platforms.

Please also bear in mind that scammers can copy information that is publicly available online. They may use real details about my professional career, books I have translated, clients I have worked with or areas in which I specialise. The presence of accurate biographical information in a message does not mean that the sender is really me. This is one of the things that makes professional impersonation particularly unpleasant: the scam becomes more convincing precisely because it is built with genuine information taken from someone else’s career.

If you are an author who has received one of these messages, thank you for taking the time to verify it. You are not bothering me by asking. I would much rather receive a message saying “Did you send this?” than discover later that someone has used my identity to deceive another professional.

And if you are a translator, editor, author or other publishing professional who has experienced something similar, please consider talking about it publicly. These scams rely on confusion, isolation and the assumption that nobody will compare notes. The more visible these impersonation attempts become, the harder it is for scammers to operate unnoticed.

Searchable warnings matter. Screenshots matter. Reporting fraudulent accounts and addresses matters. And simply telling other people that this is happening can prevent someone else from falling for it.

If you have found this post because you received an email supposedly from me and you are unsure whether it is genuine, please contact me at info@las1001traducciones.com before responding to the sender.

And if you know other authors who might be targeted by this kind of scam, please feel free to share this post. The person contacting authors in my name is not me.