by Gabrielle
Wed May 04, 2011 5:19 pm
THIS IS AN AU PAIR SCAM
First contact email: How are you? hope you are doing fine. I am very happy that you
are interested and willing to work for us. Thanks for the brief response
and I must assure you that everything is going to work out just fine here.
Of course there is no problem you being available in summer period, okay.
It might interest you to know little about the family and the job
expectations.
ABOUT US
I'm working with the a Law firm as Public Relation Officer here, live in
Bronx, New York, USA. while my husband works as a consultant. I am
down to earth, blunt and take things the way they come. I am a very
friendly person and easy to get along with.You will have no problem in
adapting to our lifestyle here. We will be needing your services due to
the time commitment that is demanding by our job. We want you to know
that you'll never have any cause to regret taking up this job.
THE KIDS
Mike is 4 years, he is welcoming,has a warm and friendly attitude. He likes
playing a lot and also like candy,chocolate. He is very intelligent and loves
to take after people, this is the more reason i will appreciate someone with
good qualities to be her Au pair so that he doesn't take to bad influence.
but I do not think you will not have any problem with him so far he eats and
plays well. John is 9 months, he pays rapt attention to all i do and tries to
mimic those acts he sees me perform. Their father likes them so much and
plays a very active role in their life.
CITY
We live in a big city with attractive
views, natural environments and nice structures. "Surely Bronx as well as
other cities in New York is regarded as the Paradise of the world. People of
this place and other states are very simple in their manners, Everybody
is neither Poverty nor Riches, each house is quite okay, and every man
has a trade and other good job opportunities and students are also
responsible in their respective schools, Most importantly there is no
distinction of Persons." Somethings are expensive like housing and car
sales but most of other things are affordable like food, clothes and many
more. But I really cant say much except you come here and see for yourself,
Okay.
SCHEDULE
Your job is not a hard one, I do not believe in supervising or
monitoring people to do their job.I believe people should be giving a
free role in whatever they do. So, I believe you should be able to
perform well without being told. All entails preparing the kids for
school in the morning, taking Mike and John to the point where the
school bus picks them up to school. You will have a free period then
whereby you can do any vocation or practice or time for studying if
you are type or whatever is at your disposal. Then you help monitor
them after they are brought home by the school bus,just to make sure
they are alright till my arrival from work.
Morning: help children get dressed, feeding, prepare for morning
activities<school, play class etc>
Afternoon: participate in other activities, library, swimming
lessons, read books, play games, listen to music
Evening: help prepare dinner, give them baths, help them put on pajamas,
Help them with any projects and school activities.
SALARY
You will have $5.8 for 8.50 hours per day for 23 days(23 days out 31
days of the month) makes or equals $1,200 plus $70 every week for your
petty expenses, your off days are the weekends Saturday and Sunday
makes up the remain 8 days to make up the 31 days of the month so you
won't be paid during those days but In case you have to work during
your off days your per pay will be at $6.00 per hour and it will be
added to your end of the month salary. This salary is subject to
negotiations for an upward review upon your arrival..
You will be provided with a well furnished bed room in the house as
soon as you get here. We will also endeavor to get you a personal
laptop connected to the internet, TV and other necessary gadgets at
your disposal. There is no problem with you having a cell phone but
you are also left with the option of using the home line to reach
whoever you want to contact. There will be enough privacy for you,i
guess you'll really like it.
STUDY
You will be free to study in any school of your choice soon as you get
here.I will be helping you as regards tuition fees.There are so many
colleges and Universities here that offer good and qualitative courses
here.
OFF DAYS
You have every weekend as your off day as I will not be going to work
during weekends except special overtime
Concerning the when to start and your length of your stay?- I am sure
that you will quite agree with me that it will be a great idea if we can
start the processing of your Visa, Work permit, Insurance and other
traveling documents any moment from now so that you can have them
ready as to avoid any delay on your part, you will be applying for it
through the agency here in the States, they helped us with our last
Au pairs and the experience has been wonderful. Their processing is
usually about 2-3 weeks with a safe and reliable service so in that
case we have no choice than to wait and get all the visa and required
documents so get back to me so that we can have that arranged.
Feel free to ask any question, we will not hesitate to answer you but
I will still appreciate if you can tell us more about you, your city and
your family?.
How long do you intend staying with us? This is actually open to both
of us as you will have your own schedule but as for us you are free to
stay with us for as long as you want 3, 6, 9, 12 months more of these
or less, okay so let's know your decision precisely about that.
I will be sending some pics later,
Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
With Love.
Second Email immeadietly wanting money and very bad english:
How are you? hope you are fine. It is so good to hear from you
again and I am sure that carefully understood our mail and thanks for
the compliments and detailed message, it makes us feel more secured
having you take care of our children. For now we are much okay with all
you have said and now there will be a change because we are ready to
take you as part of our family. I am sure that you will have a lovely
experience with our the children and family at large. As regards the
visa and traveling with us and your cooperation it is not going to be
difficult and I am of strong conviction to assure you of your safety. Of
course you staying with us for any period is okay with us hoping that
will be a great time for us to get along well. I must say you should feel
free and take us like your parents and I am sure that will be a long time
for us to get along well and have a peaceful stay. As I have said earlier
that we will be directing you with an agency here in the state for the
processing of your visa and traveling so in that case they will be
providing and guiding you with all the information needed such that
you have smooth presentation and clearance at the US embassy in
your country as soon as they are through with your visa and traveling
packages, okay. Please I will like you to follow instructions so that
there are no mistakes as much as possible.
I hope you know that getting to USA and securing a valid visa,
flight ticket and other traveling document may be quite expensive but
I want to assure you that we are always ready to give you a helping
hand because am really convinced you will be a good Au Pair in my home
and I want to see to that fact that you make it here without any
delay. So concerning the Visa, flight and other traveling documents we
will have to get them through an agency because of our past
experience: so it will only be perfect to apply through them,
they helped us with our last Au pair and it was very great and also
very secured patronizing them. We want to make sure that you have a
valid visa so that when you get to the US Embassy there wont be any
hitch whatsoever. We had our first Au pair In the year 2008 from
Croatia that processed an invalid visa and was later caught some few
weeks after staying with us which cost us so many Court cases, please
in that case I hope you are okay with this security measure.
Concerning your Visa processing and all traveling expenses, I believe
you know that our family must also pay some amount of money too, that
means; you will also be paying your own part of the total traveling
expenses which is affordable, but right now I cannot give you the
current cost breakdown and processing details except you make contact.
I want us to make progress without any delay so that you can join us
as soon as possible because I am sure that the Processing usually
takes around 2-3 weeks and so by then you will have received all your
traveling packages and also fully ready to join us when due. So
concerning the Visa, flight and other traveling documents you will
have to contact Mr. Benson Foster (The International Relation Officer)
of the Agency on this email address: [email protected]
for all details of the processing of your Visa, Work Permit, Insurance
and other traveling documents including the Total Cost, please tell
him "Your name, address, country, personal cell phone no and that you
have found your American Host family (Campbell family, living in
Bronx, New York, USA.) and also tell him how long you intend to stay
with us precisely"
Please I want you to note that sometimes you can receive the agency's
response in your Spam Message as well as mine as it maybe relayed
there due to internet error and if you are not aware it from now it
will take a long time for you to know while awaiting their or our
reply. So in order for us to move ahead at the right time and avoid
any form of delay please do take note of that, okay.
Kindly get back to me with whatever they tell you so that we can
discuss better. I will be expecting your reply soonest and pictures.
Make sure you contact them as soon as possible, okay.
Yours sincerely,
With Love.
3rd email requiring the completion of forms and money:
Hello Gabrielle,
How are you? hope you are fine as we are doing great. It is great to know that you have contacted the agency and now I have a copy of the messages sent to you and I am resending it to you so that I can be sure you got the same, okay. So I want you to get back to them on the important information and documents required of you to provide
The message you are to read it well but most importantly you are to download this attached file : there in are 3 documents 1. Your AUPF APPLICATION FORM 2. Your COST AND PAYMENT AUTHORIZATION FORM WITH THE CHILD CARE AGREEMENT FORM 3. AUPF HEALTH FORMS 1 AND 2, then you are to print them out and carefully fill it after you must have read and understood it very well, after this the agency will need you to scan the already fully filled forms and attach to a mail and send it back to them for processing and record purpose, from what I could read here, you are to pay $1,020 for your the processing of your visa, Insurance, flight ticket and all other Travel document and I must say here it's quite cheap and that is the reason why we choose the agency.
So please how soon do you think you can get all that is requested of you for the Visa processing because I will like us to settle all this processing as soon as possible so that you can join us here in good time.
Keep us updated on your progress with the agency. Take care and have a lovely time. Hope to hear from you soonest.
Yours sincerely,
With Love.:
4th email when "she" was questioned about her authenticity. Very manipulative and victimising. And again very bad english:
Thanks for your prompt response as we are very happy that you
are making progress as regards the processing in good time. There is
no problem if you have been filing all the forms so that you will be
sending them back any time soon. It is okay but I am quite
disappointed when you say stuffs like you don't trust the money aspect
or something for excuses you got somewhere, the fact that they are
some bad people in this life does not qualify everyone to be like them
and that is then more reason why one needs to distinct his or herself
from them right from the first point of contact. Left to me, if you
worry at this level of our relationship it is like you dont trust us
as well because if you have take cognizance of my messages, you will
get it right that I have tried to be careful and concerned about your
safe processing and arrival as much as possible even from the
beginning of our contact. So you dont expect me to be leading you in
the wrong path because if I am not sure of the agency doing a good job
I will not ask you to contact them in the first place, so not at
this point should you be making or coming out with elements of doubt
though I completely understand your fears but because I know there is
no reason for you to be troubles and for me being in the best position
to assure you as well as your parents can do so I want you to make
things easy by following instruction so that we can both be happy at
the end. In all let it be clear that I don't have to push you into
what is not right, this is what we have been doing in a while now and
since then, they have been helping us with our last Au Pairs and there
service was satisfactory and now I really don't know why it should
seem to be difficult for you make through with the directed steps you
need. I do want you here if not I will not have persisted in mailing
you, trying to make our demands meet up with yours and I need you to
know that everything will be settled and you won't have any problem. I
will be expecting you to mail me back soon as you get this done;
please it might also interest you to know once again that I won't be
ready to tarnish my Image on what is not worth it; I mean why will I
allow you to do some thing that will turn out to be Big problem for
you later, I can't just imagine doing that to someone that just old
enough to be my little Sister what do I stand to gain....So please am
not happy with the message you sent not that am mad at you for been
inquisitive but it seems that you have problem with trusting me for my
words which and I have explained the situation of things because am
older and more experienced in this and simply because I have pure
heart and see that you are someone trust worthy so please just do as
said I am not ready to have some one that is so difficult to relate
with on basis of trust to take care of my kids in my absence, I am
sorry but that is the way I feel and nothing has changed.
I will be glad if I can hear from on your sound progress
soonest. Take care and have a lovely time. We love you and cant wait
to have you around
First contact email: How are you? hope you are doing fine. I am very happy that you
are interested and willing to work for us. Thanks for the brief response
and I must assure you that everything is going to work out just fine here.
Of course there is no problem you being available in summer period, okay.
It might interest you to know little about the family and the job
expectations.
ABOUT US
I'm working with the a Law firm as Public Relation Officer here, live in
Bronx, New York, USA. while my husband works as a consultant. I am
down to earth, blunt and take things the way they come. I am a very
friendly person and easy to get along with.You will have no problem in
adapting to our lifestyle here. We will be needing your services due to
the time commitment that is demanding by our job. We want you to know
that you'll never have any cause to regret taking up this job.
THE KIDS
Mike is 4 years, he is welcoming,has a warm and friendly attitude. He likes
playing a lot and also like candy,chocolate. He is very intelligent and loves
to take after people, this is the more reason i will appreciate someone with
good qualities to be her Au pair so that he doesn't take to bad influence.
but I do not think you will not have any problem with him so far he eats and
plays well. John is 9 months, he pays rapt attention to all i do and tries to
mimic those acts he sees me perform. Their father likes them so much and
plays a very active role in their life.
CITY
We live in a big city with attractive
views, natural environments and nice structures. "Surely Bronx as well as
other cities in New York is regarded as the Paradise of the world. People of
this place and other states are very simple in their manners, Everybody
is neither Poverty nor Riches, each house is quite okay, and every man
has a trade and other good job opportunities and students are also
responsible in their respective schools, Most importantly there is no
distinction of Persons." Somethings are expensive like housing and car
sales but most of other things are affordable like food, clothes and many
more. But I really cant say much except you come here and see for yourself,
Okay.
SCHEDULE
Your job is not a hard one, I do not believe in supervising or
monitoring people to do their job.I believe people should be giving a
free role in whatever they do. So, I believe you should be able to
perform well without being told. All entails preparing the kids for
school in the morning, taking Mike and John to the point where the
school bus picks them up to school. You will have a free period then
whereby you can do any vocation or practice or time for studying if
you are type or whatever is at your disposal. Then you help monitor
them after they are brought home by the school bus,just to make sure
they are alright till my arrival from work.
Morning: help children get dressed, feeding, prepare for morning
activities<school, play class etc>
Afternoon: participate in other activities, library, swimming
lessons, read books, play games, listen to music
Evening: help prepare dinner, give them baths, help them put on pajamas,
Help them with any projects and school activities.
SALARY
You will have $5.8 for 8.50 hours per day for 23 days(23 days out 31
days of the month) makes or equals $1,200 plus $70 every week for your
petty expenses, your off days are the weekends Saturday and Sunday
makes up the remain 8 days to make up the 31 days of the month so you
won't be paid during those days but In case you have to work during
your off days your per pay will be at $6.00 per hour and it will be
added to your end of the month salary. This salary is subject to
negotiations for an upward review upon your arrival..
You will be provided with a well furnished bed room in the house as
soon as you get here. We will also endeavor to get you a personal
laptop connected to the internet, TV and other necessary gadgets at
your disposal. There is no problem with you having a cell phone but
you are also left with the option of using the home line to reach
whoever you want to contact. There will be enough privacy for you,i
guess you'll really like it.
STUDY
You will be free to study in any school of your choice soon as you get
here.I will be helping you as regards tuition fees.There are so many
colleges and Universities here that offer good and qualitative courses
here.
OFF DAYS
You have every weekend as your off day as I will not be going to work
during weekends except special overtime
Concerning the when to start and your length of your stay?- I am sure
that you will quite agree with me that it will be a great idea if we can
start the processing of your Visa, Work permit, Insurance and other
traveling documents any moment from now so that you can have them
ready as to avoid any delay on your part, you will be applying for it
through the agency here in the States, they helped us with our last
Au pairs and the experience has been wonderful. Their processing is
usually about 2-3 weeks with a safe and reliable service so in that
case we have no choice than to wait and get all the visa and required
documents so get back to me so that we can have that arranged.
Feel free to ask any question, we will not hesitate to answer you but
I will still appreciate if you can tell us more about you, your city and
your family?.
How long do you intend staying with us? This is actually open to both
of us as you will have your own schedule but as for us you are free to
stay with us for as long as you want 3, 6, 9, 12 months more of these
or less, okay so let's know your decision precisely about that.
I will be sending some pics later,
Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
With Love.
Second Email immeadietly wanting money and very bad english:
How are you? hope you are fine. It is so good to hear from you
again and I am sure that carefully understood our mail and thanks for
the compliments and detailed message, it makes us feel more secured
having you take care of our children. For now we are much okay with all
you have said and now there will be a change because we are ready to
take you as part of our family. I am sure that you will have a lovely
experience with our the children and family at large. As regards the
visa and traveling with us and your cooperation it is not going to be
difficult and I am of strong conviction to assure you of your safety. Of
course you staying with us for any period is okay with us hoping that
will be a great time for us to get along well. I must say you should feel
free and take us like your parents and I am sure that will be a long time
for us to get along well and have a peaceful stay. As I have said earlier
that we will be directing you with an agency here in the state for the
processing of your visa and traveling so in that case they will be
providing and guiding you with all the information needed such that
you have smooth presentation and clearance at the US embassy in
your country as soon as they are through with your visa and traveling
packages, okay. Please I will like you to follow instructions so that
there are no mistakes as much as possible.
I hope you know that getting to USA and securing a valid visa,
flight ticket and other traveling document may be quite expensive but
I want to assure you that we are always ready to give you a helping
hand because am really convinced you will be a good Au Pair in my home
and I want to see to that fact that you make it here without any
delay. So concerning the Visa, flight and other traveling documents we
will have to get them through an agency because of our past
experience: so it will only be perfect to apply through them,
they helped us with our last Au pair and it was very great and also
very secured patronizing them. We want to make sure that you have a
valid visa so that when you get to the US Embassy there wont be any
hitch whatsoever. We had our first Au pair In the year 2008 from
Croatia that processed an invalid visa and was later caught some few
weeks after staying with us which cost us so many Court cases, please
in that case I hope you are okay with this security measure.
Concerning your Visa processing and all traveling expenses, I believe
you know that our family must also pay some amount of money too, that
means; you will also be paying your own part of the total traveling
expenses which is affordable, but right now I cannot give you the
current cost breakdown and processing details except you make contact.
I want us to make progress without any delay so that you can join us
as soon as possible because I am sure that the Processing usually
takes around 2-3 weeks and so by then you will have received all your
traveling packages and also fully ready to join us when due. So
concerning the Visa, flight and other traveling documents you will
have to contact Mr. Benson Foster (The International Relation Officer)
of the Agency on this email address: [email protected]
for all details of the processing of your Visa, Work Permit, Insurance
and other traveling documents including the Total Cost, please tell
him "Your name, address, country, personal cell phone no and that you
have found your American Host family (Campbell family, living in
Bronx, New York, USA.) and also tell him how long you intend to stay
with us precisely"
Please I want you to note that sometimes you can receive the agency's
response in your Spam Message as well as mine as it maybe relayed
there due to internet error and if you are not aware it from now it
will take a long time for you to know while awaiting their or our
reply. So in order for us to move ahead at the right time and avoid
any form of delay please do take note of that, okay.
Kindly get back to me with whatever they tell you so that we can
discuss better. I will be expecting your reply soonest and pictures.
Make sure you contact them as soon as possible, okay.
Yours sincerely,
With Love.
3rd email requiring the completion of forms and money:
Hello Gabrielle,
How are you? hope you are fine as we are doing great. It is great to know that you have contacted the agency and now I have a copy of the messages sent to you and I am resending it to you so that I can be sure you got the same, okay. So I want you to get back to them on the important information and documents required of you to provide
The message you are to read it well but most importantly you are to download this attached file : there in are 3 documents 1. Your AUPF APPLICATION FORM 2. Your COST AND PAYMENT AUTHORIZATION FORM WITH THE CHILD CARE AGREEMENT FORM 3. AUPF HEALTH FORMS 1 AND 2, then you are to print them out and carefully fill it after you must have read and understood it very well, after this the agency will need you to scan the already fully filled forms and attach to a mail and send it back to them for processing and record purpose, from what I could read here, you are to pay $1,020 for your the processing of your visa, Insurance, flight ticket and all other Travel document and I must say here it's quite cheap and that is the reason why we choose the agency.
So please how soon do you think you can get all that is requested of you for the Visa processing because I will like us to settle all this processing as soon as possible so that you can join us here in good time.
Keep us updated on your progress with the agency. Take care and have a lovely time. Hope to hear from you soonest.
Yours sincerely,
With Love.:
4th email when "she" was questioned about her authenticity. Very manipulative and victimising. And again very bad english:
Thanks for your prompt response as we are very happy that you
are making progress as regards the processing in good time. There is
no problem if you have been filing all the forms so that you will be
sending them back any time soon. It is okay but I am quite
disappointed when you say stuffs like you don't trust the money aspect
or something for excuses you got somewhere, the fact that they are
some bad people in this life does not qualify everyone to be like them
and that is then more reason why one needs to distinct his or herself
from them right from the first point of contact. Left to me, if you
worry at this level of our relationship it is like you dont trust us
as well because if you have take cognizance of my messages, you will
get it right that I have tried to be careful and concerned about your
safe processing and arrival as much as possible even from the
beginning of our contact. So you dont expect me to be leading you in
the wrong path because if I am not sure of the agency doing a good job
I will not ask you to contact them in the first place, so not at
this point should you be making or coming out with elements of doubt
though I completely understand your fears but because I know there is
no reason for you to be troubles and for me being in the best position
to assure you as well as your parents can do so I want you to make
things easy by following instruction so that we can both be happy at
the end. In all let it be clear that I don't have to push you into
what is not right, this is what we have been doing in a while now and
since then, they have been helping us with our last Au Pairs and there
service was satisfactory and now I really don't know why it should
seem to be difficult for you make through with the directed steps you
need. I do want you here if not I will not have persisted in mailing
you, trying to make our demands meet up with yours and I need you to
know that everything will be settled and you won't have any problem. I
will be expecting you to mail me back soon as you get this done;
please it might also interest you to know once again that I won't be
ready to tarnish my Image on what is not worth it; I mean why will I
allow you to do some thing that will turn out to be Big problem for
you later, I can't just imagine doing that to someone that just old
enough to be my little Sister what do I stand to gain....So please am
not happy with the message you sent not that am mad at you for been
inquisitive but it seems that you have problem with trusting me for my
words which and I have explained the situation of things because am
older and more experienced in this and simply because I have pure
heart and see that you are someone trust worthy so please just do as
said I am not ready to have some one that is so difficult to relate
with on basis of trust to take care of my kids in my absence, I am
sorry but that is the way I feel and nothing has changed.
I will be glad if I can hear from on your sound progress
soonest. Take care and have a lovely time. We love you and cant wait
to have you around
