Au Pair job scam? How do these work?

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

I received the following email offering me Au Pair work in the UK (btw, I am nowhere near the UK and am not currently looking for work, and have no experience in Au Pair). It certainly reads like a scam email and is headed for my recycle bin, but I'm curious as to how this scam works - can anyone tell me?

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Good day Au pair,

How are you doing ? Hope you are doing great , well i am Thomas wood, my contact address is as follows 10 bolds Road West,
Leicester LE1 6TP, UK, i am a single parent with a son , i sent you any mail because i have register with the site for a
while now but never knew i that i was suppose to send mails to aupair to work for me so i was expecting mail but no one
send to me so i decided to make some inquiring which i was fully explained to ,so all i need from you is your honesty as i
am with certre hospital here in london.i am always on the duties, and i have divorce my wife Concerning your salary well i
am a very sincere person and i want whoever that will take care of my sons to be happy and to that fact i will be paying
you 1100pounds every week and for the benefit you will have when you come over here i believe i don't need to say much but
i believe you will achieve great.In Conclusion if you are interested please do not fail to reply me back and if you feel
the payment is too small i want you to reason it very well because i am going to help you academically when you get here
and i believe you will achieve a lot when you get here.You may like to know what my wife but i don't think is normal to
tell you for now till you get here and i want you to have in your agenda that you will take care of my son like your son
and as a mother to him.God bless you as i wait for your reply.Sorry my son names is Samuel ,get back to me as soon as
possible.Send me the following information

(1) Your Full Names………………
(2) Your Full Addresses…………….
(3) Recent Picture of Yours……………….
(4) Your Reference Full Name and Address……………
(5) Photo.........................

Tel .....+447031964256

Thomas Wood

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:08 am

It's standard advanced fee stuff - there will be fees required for visas and such like.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

Thanks for that. I like to keep on top of these things.

Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 2:47 am

The initial scamming character probably wouldn't ask for money in this particular scam. What they would most likely do is hook you up with their "travel agent" (same scammer or another in the same gang) who will make all of the arrangements for you (and ask for the visa fees plus whatever other imaginary fees they can come up with)

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