Vicky James - [email protected]

Hi rbb81,

do not be harsh on yourself

As they have a copy of your ID, you should notify the police: bring driving license and emails exchanged with scammers, and explain to the police the whole situation. Then try your best to have something written from them stating that you reported that your ID is potentially exposed to fraudulent use.
Administrator note: In most cases, a scammer will not re-use ID sent to them. There is also nothing law enforcement can do if a scammer simply has a copy of your ID. It is not necessary to go to the police. -Jillian

Beside this, there is no real problem: if you just stop contacting scammers (and this is crucial), they will realize that you are not going to pay a cent anymore, thus they may opt to ignore you and move on the next (potential) victim.

Beware that as you have fallen to this kind of scam, you could be on several scammers' lists, thus you may receive more scam emails in the future. Moreover, do not trust anyone who claims can retrieve your money: they are likely operating a "recovery scam".

You have a PM.

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Hello rbb81,

I'm so sorry to hear that you have had money stolen by this criminal.

Although many scammers may re-use any ID that you send them in their future scams, it is very unlikely that an au pair scammer will do this.

Au pair scammers frequently ask for resumes/CVs, photos, and scans of passports, ID cards, driving licences from every au pair who they write to. They do this to appear more authentic, and most au pairs send them whatever documents they ask for. Au pair scammers write to many many au pairs at the same time; often as many as 80 au pairs. Consequently, an au pair scammer's inbox will be full of scans of au pairs' ID documents. It is unlikely that the scammer even bothered to look at them - and he is not going to pay any particular attention to anything that you sent him.

So please don't worry about that. If you now drop all contact with this scammer, he will soon forget all about you, and focus instead on the au pairs who are still writing to him, and who he hopes to also steal money from.