Presley and Jennifer Darwin - Please help me!

Hi!
I recived these e.mail from this family, who invited me to take part of their family!
But I'm not so sure it's real!

The first e.mail
Dear Au pair,

We are Australian family working and living in the united kingdom, We have three children that is 4 -3- and 1year old and we are looking for an Au pair that can speak English and is willing to stay with us for a minimum of 6 - 12 Months. We saw your profile at http://www.4familycare.com and we decided to contact you, to discus the possibilities of having you as our Au pair in the spirit of cultural exchange.

We are Australians living and working in the United Kingdom. I am a Doctor and my wife is a Teacher and we all love the outdoors. This effectively means that we mainly hang out in the garden at home or sometimes go out on day trips to just about anywhere; beaches, country parks, adventure parks, activity farms, seaside towns, forest walks you name it.

Mike,Benjamin and Francis are very easy going and as such you can get along with them easily. Your accommodation would be fully furnished and we would be paying you 350GBP weekly throughout the duration of your stay with us. We shall make available a vehicle for you to use if you can drive and also share travel expenses with you. Our children means so much to us hence we are offering this salary so that you can put in your best while taking care of them.

We would like to know when you can be available because we would like an Au pair that can start as soon as possible.

Please e- mail me if you would like to discus the position with us with your pictures and CV, You can call us via our mobile phone numbers +44 702 403 5289 or +44 793 051 0936.

Yours sincerely

Presley and Jennifer Darwin
For The Family
The second e.mail
Dearest Anna ,

How are doing today? we are so glad that you could write us back that shows that you are in good health.We really want to employ you as an Au pair to our children

We have decided to find an au pair because we need help in taking care of our children. We are looking for an au pair to be a big sister to our child and to become another member of our family.

My kids likes to go to the parks once a week and we would like you to take them around if you wish.
We will require you to take care of them for about 30hrs a week. You will have weekends free and we will pay you £350 per week pocket money which we will give to you every Friday.

We reside at Clove Street Mansion, 5 Kensington Court, W1 4LT, United Kingdom where adequate security is provided.Our residence is very open and there are other au pairs close by.

You will have your own bedroom and your own bathroom either live in or live out fully furnished , plus desk phone and computer system with internet.

We receive your pictures and CV,as such we are evaluating your profile right now with our family Lawyer if we find it eligible for you to work as an au pair to our children, we would get back to you as soon as possible with the traveling guidance/contract letter and terms and conditions of the offer okay.

We are a fun young family looking for a kind hearted fun au pair to mix in with our family.

Our family shall pay for all your travel expenses, hence i will make the necessary enquiries from my Lawyer that works with the UK Home Office on how to procure traveling documents for you and get back to you.

However we love to do things rightly and it would be proper that I make some inquiries to find out on how to process your visa documentation/paper work and I would let you know as we proceed okay.

have a wonderful day and hope to hear from you!

Yours sincerely

Presley and Jennifer Darwin
For The Family

IS IT A SCAM? THANKS SO MUCH TO HELP ME!
Anna

No, no, no eliot, I'm afraid another scam. Without specifying, the above email has not been written by someone from Australia. Just did a quick search and found this viewtopic.php?f=34&t=15355&p=45527
The scammer/s are using different names but does the phone numbr and storyline look familiar?
Thank-you for the post because others doing a search in future will be alerted to the fraudulant scoundrels.

Stupid me, I have sent them my documents ...

they sent me the same letters...
OMG((((

This scammer calls themself many different names. You can see that he used the same phone numbers when pretending to be these families:

Draganovic and Jennifer Ajsa
Maxwell and Lisa Johnson

ice2times, please don't worry about having sent your documents to the scammer. Au pair scammers write to many many people at the same time, and most of them will send the scammer their CV, their photos, and maybe a passport scan as well. It is unlikely that the scammer will even have looked at any of these things - he only asked for them to appear authentic.

We see these mails so often. In fact when people come here with them they are never real jobs, and we never end up telling anyone they are. In fact you can assume it is always a scam. It seems more likely that you would never be contacted in the way indicated, and that you should work through a local ,to you, and reputable agency who will not mislead you. You should not involve a third party to deal with visa matters, and if you are told somebody can do this then it is a scam. Governments do not use free mail services, only ones given in official websites, usually contacting government departments directly. Don't use anything else other than such contacts. Governments do not use Western Union or Moneygram, for the reason they would have no control over where the money went, and even into the pocket of an employee. You can't submit copies of passports and other official documents to get a visa. Only originals will do unless you have sworn and legalised copies, assuming you can produce an original at first, only because perhaps you don't wish to risk sending your own irreplaceable one. Passports have to be the original one so never send that to a stranger. One reason is that if you part with an original, you may get back a very good forgery, and they do exist. Either way it could get stolen. Governments always tell you how to send documents securely to the correct address on their website. If you are told differently by someone you can be sure it is a scam. Governments always have official methods of payment such as debit /credit cards or postal orders which are sent by your courier directly to the government department. Governments never accept cheques for these transactions to avoid fraud.
The best way to avoid scams is to be aware and never ever send money /cash by Western Union or Money Gram WHATEVER THE EXCUSE. Everyone who is scammed has always sent off money to someone. If the rule is never do it, no one would be a victim of fraud.

Darwin Family [email protected]

Clove Street Mansion, 5 Kensington, W1 4LT
England, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 702 406 8604, +44 702 403 5289, +44 793 051 0936
Fax: 44 700 608 6662

Home Office, UK Border Agency,
PO Box 3468, Sheffield,
S3 8WA,
United Kingdom
Fax : +44 2071 17 4321
E mail: [email protected]

Please be aware!!!!

Thank you eliot for posting this additional information.

The contact information for the UK Border Agency is also fake. You can see the genuine UK Border Agency telephone numbers and email addresses here:

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

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

Great stuff eliot. Others conducting a search in future will appreciate your efforts.
One of the phone numbers has been used in a previous scam attempt dated from January 2011. I'm sure if you scroll to the top of this page and use the search function, other hits will materialize.
Also the facsimile number the scammer uses is clearly visible in employment type scams.
For example this one, http://forum.vorras.net/construction/?read=352385
Then the same fax number can be seen here also viewtopic.php?f=34&t=15599 in the Bulmer family scam.

These are some of the stolen photographs which this scammer sends to au pairs, pretending that these are photos of his own family.