Is it a scam? Andrew Taylor?

I received this:
is it a scam?

"Dear Au pair,

I am Dr. Andrew Taylor, my wife also works as a doctor. We live on
Lassell street in London, UK. We have a daughter, she means the world
to us, her name is Elizabeth, but we call her Lizzy.

Our jobs by their nature do not allow us spend adequate time with our
daughter Lizzy and cater for her immediate emotional needs which are
indispensable for her well being. Because of the above reason, we
decided to seek the help of an Au pair on the recommendations of some
of our neighbors who also have enjoyed successful experiences with
other Au pairs.

We came across your profile on http://www.newaupair.com and our interest was
kindled. We will like to offer you a position in our home as an Au
pair to take care of our child.

If you consider our request and also decide to join us, we expect that
your primary motivation will be to cater for our child with utmost
devotion, diligence and trustworthiness.

We will require you to take care of our daughter Lizzy on the behalf
my wife and myself when we are absent from home for mostly work
related reasons and we hope that the above duty will be discharged
with impeccable discipline and commitment to duty. We are really
interested in engaging your service and we hope you possess the right
attitude and devotion to perform the duty that is expected of you.

We will, however, require that you send us your resume, and if
available, maybe some recommendations from note-worthy persons or
authorities, however if these aren't available I suppose just your
resume will suffice for now.

We will gladly entertain any questions that you will like to ask us
concerning our family or our offer.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Taylor Andrew."

The e-mail is this: [email protected]

Can someone help me? Thank you in advance!

Welcome to Scamwarners Cristella,

Yes, it is a scam.

Thank you for your reply! But how can I recognize them?

Frankly Cristella, the chances of a UK family employing a foreign au pair nowadays is going to be rare, for simple economic reasons, but it's not entirely impossible. The UK government offers very significant economic support to all UK families for child care, but it is only payable if that child care is supplied by those with child care qualifications, and foreign au pairs are very unlikely to have those qualifications and a doctor would ask you about them. Scammers are clueless and ignorant, but a UK doctor would want to know very specifically about this because it makes a big difference to them economically and it would be irresponsible and professionally damaging to them to employ any person who is not properly qualified.

No UK doctor would send an e-mail like this, and they would be much more demanding in ensuring that anyone looking after their children was properly qualified.

@Cristella

This particular one I found on an Au Pair site informing Au Pairs of the scam.