Any free service that has utility will be quickly scripted against and used to make someone else money. Build accordingly
Personally I would deep dive the traffic and try to determine the intent behind it, you could be destroying a future generation's potential, and not blocking malware I'm assuming you can correlate the requests from those ips with that they are translating. Odds are someone is hitting your service to translate for their paid service, but if it's an important part of a poor country, I'd find a way to allow it to keep happening
> AFAIK we couldn't see translation requests from them, just loading our website.
Browser homepage? Or maybe the unlucky victim of a "connectivity check/am I online" recurring task