Grace Strauss - [email protected]

This is not a genuine au pair opportunity; it is a scam. If you are looking for an au pair position in the USA, please read these US Government webpages about the US Au Pair Program:

http://exchanges.state.gov/jexchanges/p ... upair.html

http://j1visa.state.gov/participants/how-to-apply/

Do not send money to any agency, embassy, lawyer, or other person introduced to you by a potential host family.

From: Grace Strauss <[email protected]>
Subject: HELLO DEAR NANNY/AU PAIR

My name is Mrs Strauss i am from United state, New York. we have a four
years old Son name Paul and a 2 years old boy also name Mack .... we
want an Au-pair/Nanny for them because They and the Maid are always the
ones left at home after me and her dad left home for work. we will like
you to know that we will be paying you $2,680 for a month and we will
also be responsible for part of the money for your flight ticket,we
will like you to get back to us if you are interested in being our
Au-pair.

Mrs. Strauss

Here is another email from this scammer. You can see a near-identical scam mail here:

Cohen Bonzai

From: Grace Strauss [email protected]
Subject: More About me

How are you doing over there, my name is Mrs. Strauss ..I am a mom of 2
kid and i do have a lovely son and his name is Paul, he will be 3 years
old soon and i work as a managing director of a coffee company, I get
back home lately that is why me and my husband decided to get an
Au pair/Nanny that will take good care of our little Kid. Me and my
husband are honest, trust worthy and eligible about our family and we
are looking for the same in the Au pair/Nanny that is going to work with
us. About the Au pair/Nanny Duties , He/She must give my child a special
care and good in cooking, helping our house girl in light house work
and we will give the Au pair/Nanny a car to drive out with my kid, in
case you don't know how to drive am willing to teach you someday and the
Au pair/Nanny can come along with is boyfriend/Girlfriend . We have make
arrangement of a room and par-lour for the Au pair in our house and i
don't think you will have a problem in staying with us and we live
together as the same family, cause i am a caring mother and about my
Husband he his a soldier working together with USA Government and he
will like to meet you also and if you really want to work with us you
will have to get back to us with your Information and we will like to
see more pictures of you have any.
Here are more questions for you to answer:
do you have any working experience?
for how long have you been searching for a family?
what is your real age?
you got kids?
do you have any experience about first aid?
what do you do for now (i mean your job)?
how do you intend to treat our baby?
will you also like to help us with some house work?
Where are you living right now?
Will you like to live with us ?
I have live in The United state before well i can Speak English
fluently i will like to tell you we will be paying you $2,000 ..You
will be working from Monday to Friday then you Enjoy Your weekend


Mrs Strauss

These are two of the stolen photos which this scammer is using, pretending that the photos are of their own family:

The travel agency introduced in this email is fake, and is part of the scam. The scammer also used the same telephone and fax numbers for another fake agency. You can see this here:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11630&p=31889#p31889

From: Grace Strauss <[email protected]>
Subject: Contact Agency for your Visa and work Permit

How are you doing? hope everything is well with you? We will like to
inform you that you will need a Visa Documents and Working Permit for
you to be able to work with our Family In United State Of American and
We will be happy if you do the document with our agency here in USA
cause We have been working with them for the past 15 years now and
they are good, perfect and working hard and it will be better if you
can contact them.first of all we want you to know that you can come
here and you can stay and work for us as long as you like. Also I
share your view about getting into the united state legally. I want
you to have all the necessary documents you need to come with before
the end of the month or next month with your visa. Also we can
recommend an agency for you in United State,if you might have problem
in getting a reputable and experience traveling agent in this field,
We can recommend the one that handled our last Au pair's document and
visa and the charges are affordable and they are affiliated to Bell
View airways and approved by the commonwealth body and the United
State Government. I have to inform you that it will take the travel
agency 3 weeks to make the visa and document to be ready and it will
be sent to your contact address which you give them ..You can contact
them personally via information as my schedule at my office is tight .

NAME: Mr. Donald
EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]
PHONE NUMBER: 206-339-2944
FAX NUMBER: 086500865

Contact the agency and make enquiries regarding the visa and document
for you to come to the United State and we are going to be the one to
pay your flight ticket and all you need to do is to contact the agency
for your the processing of your visa and document to come to our
family here, when you have contact them they will tell you how much it
will cost you and how you can send the money to them and it will get
to them and they will start working on your document and visa .
please kindly understand that we cant deduct any money from your
salary to do all this for you and to be on the fair side and also to
earn your trust, I want you to be honest with us and let us know how
much you have out of the processing fee the travel agency will charge
you and we will pay the rest as soon as you receive mail from the
agency.please understand that we cant pay all the money for your
traveling initially but as soon as you arrive in person to the united
state, we will be glad to refund all expenses made to you. Its not we
cant bear the expenses but we are only taking some cautious and
precaution as we have lost some money while trying to help a nanny but
she happens to be a fake and ran away with it.Anyway if this is fine,
contact the agency and let me know if $3,000 will be ok per calendar
month as your salary and you will be working for 35-40 hours per week,
all other things would be free. We will appreciate it if you like to
take care of our Children.

We hope to read from you soonest.

Mrs. Strauss