It looks familiar...

[fir4charlotte]

Well...As an Au pair, you can never be too careful and in my experience if it LOOKS too good to be true, it probably is. So when I received this email my sixth sense immediately began ticking away. BUT just to make sure that I'm not being paranoid...I would appreciate some confirmation. Scammer...right?,

Dear Aupair
Am happy to contact you,we saw your profile at http://www.easyaupair.com,

A fun, energetic and pro-active LIVE IN Nanny is required to care of my
baby boy Mark who will be 2 years old when this sole charge position
commences. The
hours will be 25-30 hours a week Monday – Friday.

You must not be an experienced Nanny with baby experience and a
references is needed to support
your application if any. A driver is not required. Salary £negotiable.Contact
me on my e-mail: [email protected] to show your interest
then we can communicate further.

You will be paid an allowance of 1500GBP monthly and 500GBP every
second week of every month for your pocket money.

My name is Mr.Paul Benson and i am 40 years old,am a medical doctor in
my private hospital here in London.My Wife Maris is 35 years old and
also work with me as a
Nurse in our private hospital.

This position requires a confident nanny/aupair that is interested in
development and education and also willing to travel to Untied Kingdom

Get back to us soon with your pictures and resume.

Kind Regards

Mr.Paul Benson

[Dotti]

Your instinct is correct. It is a scam.

[jolly_roger]

Yep. It certainly does look familiar. If not mistaken, this scammer has been previously mentioned somewhere within the site forums in a nanny type scam earlier this year. A scammer using the exact same name has clearly been shown to be involved with a 419 type scam from May 2010.
Your best course of action is to simply ignore the silly sausage and have no further contact with it.

[fir4charlotte]

I do have some pictures that he sent to me....I don't know if that will be of any help? Just don't know how to get them on here...

[jolly_roger]

For posting photos, http://scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3219 explains it far better than I could. If publishing photos in the forum, I find a good idea is to watermark them or write across photos using the words Image used by scammer before posting.

[fir4charlotte]

[Chris Fuller]

Thank you fir4charlotte for taking the time and trouble to watermark and post those photographs. Scammers steal photographs from innocent people to use in their scams, downloading them from their Facebook or MySpace profiles, personal websites, blogs, or other places. This is very distressing to the real people in the photographs, of course, so we try to minimize their distress by hiding the faces of their children.

Therefore, I've substituted the photographs with identical ones which have the little boy's face hidden.

I'm glad that you uploaded these photos, because I notice that the same photos are used in this scam, when the scammer is pretending to be called Mr Gibson James:

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewto ... 75#p126075