Leonard Cole - [email protected]

This is not a genuine au pair opportunity; it is a scam. This scammer uses the same redirect telephone number when he is pretending to be other host families; you can see this here:

Harrison Green
Cullen Ramsey

From: loenard cole <[email protected]>

Hello Au pair,

We are an easygoing couple with a happy, fun, and healthy kid. We saw
your profile on aupair-options.com and decided to contact you on the
possibility of becoming our new family member. We are looking for
an Au pair who can take good care and be a big brother or sister to
our only child.

My name is Mr Leonard Cole and I am 46 years old, Am FB Manager of
Royal garden hotel London. My spouse Mariah is thirty three years old and
works as a Nurse here in London.

We live in a four bedroom house in 24 Kensington High St Kensington London
W8 4PT United Kingdom and have one son Casey age 5 years old.

We spend 3 months at a beach house in East London each year. Casey our
son is so much fun and this age is adorable! You will have the chance
to really impact his life since he is so impressionable now. We are
only interested in hiring someone who is willing to work in the UK.

All Travel expenses shall be borne by us and we shall also provide
fully furnished live in or live out accommodation. Write us soonest
with your picture/resume, introduction and how soon you can start as
we need a Au pair that can start as soon as possible.

You can contact us via email - [email protected] or call me
on + 44 7024052801 or give me a direct mobile number to reach you with
so that we can discuss further.

Best Regards
Cole family.

Barr Mathew Bradly, mentioned in the following email, is fake. You can see this fake barrister name also used in this scam:

Philip Harry

Please also note that the email address [email protected] is not a genuine email address of the UK Home Office; it is the scammer's email address, and he uses it in several scams, when pretending to be different host families, including:

Robert Carrick
Ben Ransom
Mcgivern Liz

You can see the genuine UK Border Agency email addresses here:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/conta ... ctcentres/

You will notice that the genuine UK Home Office/Border Agency email addresses end with @ukba.gsi.gov.uk - and with no words or abbreviations after that.

From: loenard cole <[email protected]>

Hope you are having a real pleasant time. After discussing your
employment with my wife, we decided to employ you.

I have attached to this email the contract letter I received from our
lawyer Barr Mathew Bradly of the UK home office and you are to read
through for the terms and conditions of our offer to you.

Our lawyer will help you to procure the Travel and employment
documents, hence, if you agree to the terms on the contract letter,
print the contract and sign it then send a scan copy to the UK home
office on there email [email protected] as to begin your
application with the UK home office.

In your written application to home office, Indicate your intending
travel date and take off location for appropriate flight booking which
we shall pay for.

Contact the UK home office as soon as possible and keep us posted when you
receive reply from the home office. Find the contract letter attached
to this email.

Warm regards.
Mr Leonard Cole for the family.

Attached Contract Letter reads:

ROYAL GARDEN HOTEL
LONDON

ROYALGARDENHOTEL GROUP

2-24 Kensington High St Kensington London W8 4PT

Direct Line: +447024052801


LETTER OF OFFER


We would like to offer you the position of Au pair to our family. The terms and conditions of the job are as follows:

Hours

You will be required to work for approximately 35 hours per week. Every weekend, will be spent with the family or anywhere you wish as you would have the weekends off.

Accomodation:

You would have a Private Live-Out or Live-In Accommodation depending on your preference with Private Bathroom, Sitting Room and Bedroom. Your room would also be furnished with a Television Set, an Internet Ready Computer System and a Fixed Landline telephone. We ask that all rooms be kept tidy and that friends staying over should only do so with our permission. If we go out as a family, you will generally be invited to come with us (at our expense) should you so choose.

Duties and responsibilities

Your main duty is the due care of Casey. You will be required to get him ready for the day, get him to kindergarten school, collect him after school and see to his needs in the afternoon. You will also be required to assist with homework, bath and change as required, arrange visits with friends, see to after school activities, play games together as well as anything else that may be necessary for their amusement and wellbeing.

Salary

You will be paid an amount of £550 (Five Hundred And Fifty Great British Pounds) per week and this money shall be given to you every Friday. Additional hours will be paid at a rate that we may agree between ourselves from time to time.

Period of Employment:

You are expected to stay for a minimum period of 6 Months or One Year. If due to circumstances beyond your control or for any other reason, you wish to leave at an earlier date than our agreement, you will be required to give one month’s notice. If we require you to leave, subject to the conditions specified under discipline we will give you a minimum of one month’s notice.

Medical Insurance has also been put in place so you can receive free medical attention.

Discipline

Reasons which could give rise to disciplinary measures are as follows: Causing a disruptive influence in the household.

Job incompetence

In a need for disciplinary action, the procedure will be:

First - a verbal warning.

Second - a written warning.

Third - dismissal without need for further notice.

Reasons with would give rise to summary dismissal would be:

Theft or other dishonest offences.

Drunkenness.

Illegal drug taking. Child abuse or neglect.

Vacation

You will have 3 weeks paid vacation after 4 months of work. Vacation must be negotiated however, well in advance.

School

You will be enrolled at a Public School to attend a course in any language of your choice for foreigners for the duration of your stay. We look forward to having you with us and are sure that our association will be a long and happy one. Please sign a copy of this letter as acceptance of its terms and conditions.

A Certificate of Eligibility is important to prove that we are sponsoring your travel down to the UK and to prove that you are eligible to take up a job position in UK before they send you Interview Date and reference number to visit the nearest UK Embassy in your country. The Certificate of Eligibility would be issued to you with your Appointment Reference Number and Interview Date to visit the nearest UK Embassy in your country for Entry approval.

You are to sign the contract after going through it and send a scanned copy via e mail indicating your intended travel date and Airport (For Flight Booking which we shall pay for), to the UK Home Office in charge of applications for Certificate of Eligibility for their records and advice to us:

UK Home Office, Border Agency, PO Box 3468, Sheffield,

S3 8WA,

United Kingdom

Email: [email protected]

We look forward to receive you at the airport when you arrive the Country.

Cheers. Mr Leonard Cole (For the Family)


Complete the details below to signify acceptance:

Full Name:………………………………………………………………………

Date: ………………………………………………………………………………

Signature: …………………………………………………………………………

on 12 february I recieved an email from a man calling himself dr. Clifford Wesley, a doctor at the Moorfield Eye Hospital asking me to become their 4 year old son's au pair and sent me a contract letter which I had to sign and mail back to the UK Home Office... After searching the adress given to me in Chelsea London I was very excited because it looked amazing. due tot he fact that I am a 20 year old femaile from Cape Town, South Africa and not used to people trying to scam me I writtenly agreed to the terms and conditions but something bothered me. i could not find this person on the Hospitals list not anything about him on the internet and so i became more hesitant. i've been asking them to Skype with with me before I sign anything but they were not willing to and claimed that they had a pervious aupair, leonard cole, from spain with his emailadress [email protected]. when i typed this name in on the internet It linked me with THIS site and the same man claiming to be a host family....all of the documents are exactly the same... there were even a place where they named their son Darren and later Cole... These people are using a bunch of names over and over again! THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!! I feel i owe you my life!!! I'm so in shock that I cant even sleep! thank u very much!! being from a small town near Cape Town we are not used to things like this and when opertunities like this come our way we jump at it! Thank You for saving my life! My biggest fear was that they would traffic me if I found out to late that it was a scam or sell me to some or other place... Thank you so much!! Really! God bless you! thank YOU!!!

Hello Annekjooste,

I'm glad that you were wise and researched the family that you were communicating with.

In reality, citizens of South Africa are not eligible to go to the UK as au pairs. You can read about the only countries who are eligible for a visa here:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas ... ityscheme/

If you also click on 'Conditions of your stay' on the left hand side of that webpage, you will be able to confirm that this is the correct visa for au pairs.

Hi all
I do not know if I understand, and please help in the confirmation information.
I live in Poland and a man named Clifford Wesley wrote to me and wants me to his child caring for her four year old boy named Darren.
Email sent to me pictures of his family and son. I do not know what to do.
I do not know what to believe.
Does this man really is whether an ordinary liar?
Help me not want to commit some error.
Greetings to all on the forum of Polish Marta

Welcome to Scamwarners, Marta!

Yes, this is a scam. The man pretending to be Clifford Wesley is most likely a young African man sitting in an internet cafe in Nigeria.

Ten cz?owiek jest okrzykni?ty k?amc?. On nie posiadaj? pracy dla was. Przystanek kontakt przy nim; on chce jedynie kradn? ciebie pieni?dze.

How did they steal money from me?
How do they do?
Since I come to them with no money and I want to earn money from them and what next?
Do they do something strange with the women on which it will become and eats?
Do you deal with this issue some sort of police?
Do they take a woman for example, to escort?
Is this Clifford already tricked a woman?
Or did someone hurt?
Do you know anything about this?
I got the pictures from the family, I wonder who is on them?
Thank you for the information and best regards Marta

Hi Marta,

Do not contact them. Drop contacts asap.

Scam description:
the classic setting for this scam is that they will ask you to provide personal information for travel papers (visa, work permits and so on).

(Remember that all EU citizens enjoy freedom of movement, thus do not need any visa).

Then they will tell you that these papers are going to cost you some money, and ask you to wire money most probably by Western Union or MoneyGram. Then they will come with other fees and so on.

As Helen Halper said, they have nothing to offer you. Photos they sent you may be stolen from internet, not their own photo. Clifford is most probably a fake name used by scammers.
Notice that +4470 phone numbers are redirect numbers, i.e. can be answered by anyone in any place in the world (including Nigeria, Malaysia, etc.). These numbers are a frequent element in scams.

[AlanJones]

Hello Marta and welcome to ScamWarners.

The scammers are only interested in stealing potential au pair's money. They do this by makeing up pretend fees that have to be paid to a travel agency (also the scammer using another email address).

The scammer is not in the country that they pretend to be in, they are operating out of an Internet cafe somewhere in Africa.

As I mentioned I live in Poland and not really understand everything that I write.
Should I report to any authorities?
Is there a chance that suffered the consequences?
Should I continue writing with Clifford and also end the conversation?
Regards

[AlanJones]

You can report it to the authorities, but there is little that they can do as the scammer is in Africa in an Internet cafe.

If you stop writing to the scammer, then there is nothing that he can do to you, except write a few emails to you. You have nothing to gain from continuing to write to him.



Mo?esz to zg?osi? do w?adz, ale ?e niewiele mog? zrobi? jako oszust jest w Afryce, w kafejce internetowej.

Je?li zatrzymasz si? na pi?mie do oszusta, to nie ma nic, co mo?e zrobi? dla ciebie, chyba napisa? kilka maili do Ciebie. Nie masz nic do zyskania nadal do niego napisa?.

I hope you are wise girls and that they will fall for the promises of big earnings.
Please check all possible before you go anywhere.
Greetings to all and thanks for the info, nice of you help Marta