Even we translators have been targeted! A couple of my colleagues have sent manuscripts of translated Chinese fiction to bogus editors. If you thought unpublished original fiction was unlikely to be a profitable ripoff, unpublished translated foreign fiction is even more head-scratching.

I asked a friend to send me one of the emails so I could look at the headers. All I could get was that it appeared to be sent from an Italian-language webmail setup, no other clues I could find.