Au Pair Scam sirgleen.mccarthy <[email protected]>

[AlanJones]

The following email was received in response to a listing on an Au Pair website. This is a scam, no vacancy exists the scammer will try an scam you out of money by asking for fees or travel costs or accomodation costs.

Received from: sirgleen.mccarthy <[email protected]>
Subject: We need an au pair / nanny urgently in our home

I am Sir Gleen McCarthy and the name of my kids are paula and Jim aged 6 and 4. I work in a truck company here in central london and i don't usually stay home till weekends. My kids are special to me and my wife before she died. I am seeking an Au Pair who is honest, reliable, kind & considerate. I want an aupair nanny for them because they are the only one left at home whenever i am at work,since my wife passed on.We have an private room here in our house for our new nanny.I can afford to pay you 650 pounds weekly and a daily pocket money of 50 pounds.I will be glad to help you regarding your traveling documents where necessary.

There is quite a lot of free time within the position - as the kids will be at school during the day.You will have a TV, & 24 hours computer access, so you can stay in contact with your family. Remember that your working hours is just 8 hours per day and your responsibility in my house is just to take care of my kids, cooking ,taking them on shopping ,taking them to where the school bus will pick them up from which is just 3 km ahead from our home.We also have a car for you.I prefare a nanny that can start before the end of this month or next month, & preferably stay for between 1-12 months.i hope to hear from you soon. I attached some pictures for you and i will be glad if you can send me some pctures of yourself too so i can print them out and show my kids. I am sure that they will be very glad to see you. Get back to me telling me about yourself and if you have ever been an au pair before. Do you have a valid visa and work permit to be here to start work legally ?


Sir Gleen McCarthy

[AlanJones]

Reply received from the scammer after expressing interest

Hello,
I got your mail and i am quite impress with your expression and total description of yourself. My kids are great and love to play games and they do not have any trouble at all. Nevertheless i think i still need to know when exactly you'll be arriving here, and if you have contacted the travel agency regarding your work permit. I advice you to contact them now and let me know as soon as you get a reply from them. Here is their contact e mail : [email protected] and their website is : http://www.travelworld2.tk/ [ they were the ones that processed the visa and work permit for our last au pair ]. I can accept to help you pay some of your travel expenses fee but definately not all. Your job entails preparing the children's healthy meals when we are at work. Cooking for family dinner would be sometimes required or at least to start things when required, sometimes tiding up the kitchen after dinner and putting away toys around the house at the end of the day is expected.

Do get back to me as soon as you can as we need your services here urgently

Sir Gleen McCarthy

My email to him had no description of 'myself' it just said I was interested in the job, so the reply is obviously scripted.

The website quoted for the Travel Agents is a fake site and will be reported and killed.

[AlanJones]

Here is the initial reply received from the 'Travel Agent'

Received from: Robinson Miller <[email protected]>
Subject: ***YOUR VISA INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM***

WELCOME TO TRAVEL WORLD TRAVEL AGENCY


Hello ,

TWTA Management wishes to thank you for contacting us regarding the arrangement of your Traveling Documents to the United Kingdom. We promise to Offer you the best which you will be Glad you did. We want you to know that you will need to obtain a working visa to be able to live and work in London as it is the only legal means of working. We would request that you provide us with the following so that the documentation will start immediately. We would get your visa and working permit ready and sent over to you within 1 week as soon as we receive the information from you.

- Full Name
-Postal Address
-Mailing Address
-Phone Number
-Nationality
-Passport Photo page
-Passport Number

A total of 1,000 pounds will enable us process the necessary Documents for the visa, work permit, health insurance paper and tax for you to Travel down here , Flight ticket and all other necessary documents as well.

All Documents will be processed and arranged here in our Office after which will be forwarded to you along with your Flight Ticket. Also,some Copies of this Document(s) will also be sent to your host family for reference purposes. We will like you to fill the spaces in the questionings above and get it back to us with a scanned copy of your recent Passport Photo.

We will begin in earnest once we receive all necessary Details.

In anticipation of your response

Yours Faithfully,

Robinson Miller

[AlanJones]

And here is the request for the Western Union payment

Received from: Robinson Miller <[email protected]>
Subject: ***INFORMATIONS RECIEVED...WAITING FOR THE PAYMENT***

Hello,

We want you to know that we have recived your informations and it has been stored in our data base. We however expect you to send us the money for the processing of your documents so we can start processing it and you can be amongst the millions of people living and working here. You are to send the money through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER to our Agency Office in the UK with this information :

Name : Robinson Miller
Address : 107 Fallows Way,
City : Liverpool
Country :United Kingdom

You are to email us with the SENDERS FULL NAME AND THE MTCN [ 10 digit number from western union ] OR the SCAN COPY of the payment receipt given to you at western union after payment.

Yours Faithfully,

Robinson Miller

[AlanJones]

And here are the details of the scammer's accomplice in Canada

Hello,

We want you to know that we are not scammer here and we are a registered company. You can check our website : http://www.travelworld2.tk/ We are currently undergoing some upgrade in our banking system and we will not be able to receive money here in the UK. Your father can either send the money to us here in the UK through Money Gram with the informations that we gave to you in our previous e mail or send it to our branch office in Canada with this informations :

JUVY L. QUIDEP
TD Canada Trust
3931 Keele St.
Downsview, ON M3J 1N6
Branch 1480, Canada.
Account number 63063xx

Send us the confirmation after the money have been sent so we can receive and confirm your payment here immediately.

Thanks for your patronage

Robinson Miller
For the agency

[AlanJones]

'Sir Gleen' changes into standard scammer mode when the money doesn't turn up.

I DONT WAT U ANYMORE TOO BECOS U AND YOUR FATHER ARE BIG LIARS AND I
DONT WANT A LIER IN MY HOUSE