Lopez Johnson - [email protected]

[Chris Fuller]

This scammer sends his introductory email from different email addresses:

Sender: [email protected]
From: Lopez Johnson <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Au pair/Nanny Job Available

Sender: [email protected]
From: Lopez Johnson <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Au pair Service Needed

He has used the same Sender's email addresses for other scams; you can see examples here:

Olivia Green
Vanessa Lauger

His email:

Au pair/Nanny Service Needed
We are a fun loving British family currently living in California but
we will be relocating to London soon and we need an aupair/nanny that
can take good care of our 2 children with little or no supervision.
Kindly reply to this email if you are interested and let us know of
your available date.
Hoping to hear from you soon.

[Chris Fuller]

This email was not sent from California; it was sent from Nigeria, as proven by the IP address: 41.155.4.198 - Lagos, Nigeria.

From: Lopez Johnson <[email protected]>
Subject: Further Details

Thanks for the response, we hope to move to our new home in Brent street, London in 2 weeks as soon as we confirm your commitment to work as the next aupair in my family.
We read your reply and once again we will like to repeat to you that we are looking for someone very friendly who is prepared to be part of our family and look after our 2 kids appropriately when we get to London. Your main task will be to care for our adorable kids, Peter and Lilian whose ages are 5 and 7 respectively. Occasionally you will do light household work like cleaning and ironing.
You will take Peter to and from Kindergarten and also to play dates. He would be at nursery for 3 mornings per week at least in the beginning but this will be reviewed.
Peter is easy going and only grumpy when tired. At the same time he needs a lot of attention. Although most of the time he is calm but he can be tricky and he always needs someone to say no whenever he's wrong.
The kids will have their playroom in the house which will have a TV and toys and to keep them relax you will have to encourage them to watch TV i.e. cartoon.
Lilian is a bit troublesome too but very controllable. She likes to sleep most times but only cry when hungry .
You will be working for 40 hours weekly and we hope to pay £12 hourly plus bus ticket worth £67 weekly and we will also provide you with a mobile phone with some inclusive minutes each month and the rest would be your responsibility. We also hope to provide you access to our cars if you have driving experience but not all the time.
We have already secured a home in Brent street, London and all other living arrangement are also intact at the moment and we hope to arrive in London at any date from now.
Your duties which we expect you to discharge perfectly are Getting kids out of bed for a 10 minutes morning exercise by 8am. Getting the kids dressed in the morning. Supervising her breakfast and lunch plus morning and afternoon snacks. Playing with her (age appropriate) to insure at least 60 minutes of exercise (can be split throughout the day). Doing education crafts & activities with her (age appropriate). Ensuring there optimal health and safety during your care. Keeping her room clean and organized. Doing laundry if necessary. Taking the kids to and from school and activities. Supervising play dates.
Do inform us in case you have any objections to this duties and suggesting what we can do about it.
I have not scan my pictures but i will try to do that soon and send them to you and i will like to know your exact arrival date.
Before we proceed further we will still like you to answer these few questions.
1) What is your nationality?
2) Have you ever traveled outside your home country before?
3) Have you much experience working with kid’s?
4) Do you smoke?
5) Do you drink?
6) Do you have brothers and sisters?
7) Do you Drive
8) Do you mind doing light cooking?
9) Can you help with shopping?
10) Can you help with housework?
Hope to hear from you soon.

[Chris Fuller]

The UK Solicitors are also fake, and part of the scam.

From: Lopez Johnson <[email protected]>

I am satisfied with your response and i definitely believe you will be a good companion for our children. Our main priority is for you to be a friendly and kids loving person and with all i have read of you so far i believe you are.
I will like you to confirm the arrival date better and let me know of that in due time so that i can also plan our schedule ahead to pick you up at the airport when you arrived. Mind you try and choose a weekend arrival so that i can be well available to give you every support necessary.
Henceforth, i want you to contact the law firm in charge of the processing of your travel and working documents. The name of the law firm is UK IMMIGRATION SOLICITORS and they are based in United Kingdom, they also have chambers in United States and Russian Federation. The law firm help my previous aupairs to process there travel and they are fast in the processing. The travel solicitors contact details is as follows.
Company Name: UK Travel Solicitors
Contact person: Wale Bright
Email: [email protected]
Contact the travel solicitors immediately for the processing of your travel and working papers and get back to me.
Hoping to read from you ASAP.

[Chris Fuller]

This is an email from the fake UK Travel Solicitors:

From: Wale Bright <[email protected]>

Thanks for contacting UK Travel Solicitors, we are a UK based Travel Agency Company and we help caregiver all over the world to process there papers including UK working papers, tax clearance and the contract forms with other legal documents which are the necessary primary documents needed before you can qualify to work in the UK. We process papers mainly for Au pairs and the host family whom you will be working with already inform us of your application and he has instructed us to help you process all your papers soon so that you can come to Uk for the Job.
The price for processing all the above listed documents is 753GBP . So contact us with the requirements and payment soon to avoid delay in the processing.
We need some more details from you to proceed with the Working permit and the tax clearance, below are the details needed.
FULL NAME:
FULL ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
NATIONALITY:
PASSPORT NUMBER:
STATE & ZIP CODE:
PHONE NUMBER:
SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE, PRIMARY OR SECONDARY (OPTIONAL)
TIME AND DATE YOU WANT TO FLY FROM YOUR LOCATION TO UK?
We will also like to know if you are eligible to work and live in the UK. You are eligible if you are okay with the following:
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DEPOTED FROM THE UK BY THE UK GOVERNMENT ?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN COUGHT FOR A CRIMINAL PURPOSE ?
DID U HAVE A PASSPORT?
IF YES SCAN VIA EMAIL
Email us as soon as possible and let us know if you can provide us the following details so that you can fill the application and visa form. This form must be filled out completely. We will start the processing of your application as soon as we receive the application form from you and the payment.
UK Travel Solicitors. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVE YOU BETTER.


Wale Bright
Travel Solicitors

Tel: +44 703 590 6460
Fax: +44 844 774 5437
Email: [email protected]

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[Chris Fuller]

The scammer hopes to steal the full amount of money requested, but if an au pair cannot afford to send this, the scammer will settle for stealing a smaller amount. He is lying about helping with payment, because there is no genuine payment to be made - the travel solicitors are fake, and the fees are invented. He is just pretending to assist with the invented fees.

From: Lopez Johnson <[email protected]>

I want you to know that you do not need to pay all the expenses alone i want you to just tell me how much you can afford and i will pay the rest. I want you to know that i can't pay for all your travel expenses due to my previous experience and you do not need to pay all the expenses alone i want you to just tell me how much you can afford and i will pay the rest, i want you to know that you can pay any amount out of the amount the travel agency gave and i will pay the rest for you, this is just to show your seriousness
about the job. so i want you to mail me as soon as possible with the amount you can afford and i will pay the rest for you immediately.
I can't just pay all the money for your travel like that, you will have to pay out of the money so that i will be sure that you are serious and that you are not here to waste my precious time and as soon as you are here in USA i will give you back the money you pay out to the travel agency for me to trust you.
I want you to know that i have once payed all the money for a particular aupair from philipines but the aupair get away with my money so that is why you will have to pay out of the money for me to have trust in you and also to be sure u are serious about the job.

Hope to hear from you soon
Cheers