Mr John Roy - Please help me!

Hi.
Please help me, Is this scam?
This is the latest message.

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 Brian. 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 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.

Start Date and Period of Employment:
You are expected to start 4 September 2011, and to stay for a minimum period of 3 Months to 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 the event of 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

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 our
Family barrister (Barrister Harry Joe) that works with the UK Home Office

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. John Roy (For the Family)





Complete the details below to signify acceptance:

Full Name: ……………………………………………………………………….. Home Office Seal

Date: ………………………………………………………………………………
Signature: …………………………………………………………………………

I forgot that Mr John Roy sent these message.

e-mail addres: [email protected]


Dear Máthé,

I believe details of your job has been stated on the contract letter issued to you.

I am attaching herewith a Contract/Invitation
Letter for you to go through. If you accept, you would have to sign
and date at the bottom and send a scanned copy to me as e mail
attachment.

Like i told you, do not bother your self on how you will travel down to London, My lawyer that works with the UK home office will help
you with your traveling documents, his email is
([email protected]) so do contact him with the sign contract
letter and i will be going to his office as soon as possible.

Send him an e mail with a copy of the signed contract letter and he
will get in touch with you so that you can travel down soonest to
resume duties with us.

Tell him the date you are free to come.

We love you and hope to meet you soon.

Thanks.

Mr John

The first message from Mr. John Roy:

Dear Au Pair,
We are looking for someone loving and energetic to look after our lovely 3 Years old baby boy Brian. Ideally the person would start as soon as possible, although we are prepared to wait for the right person.

You will be required to look after him along during the day (Monday to Friday) whilst I am at work, with additional babysitting once or twice a week in the evenings or at the weekends.

My wife is currently 2 months pregnant with our second child so as much help and assistance around the house would be excellent.

The most important thing is that you must love kids, and be happy to help out around the house. We would like you to enjoy spending time with Brian, and take very good care of him. He is a very happy, friendly, cute boy, who really likes to be taken out of the house to playgroups, swimming in our pool, going to the swings or beach, meeting friends, etc. He will grow to love you very much. Ideally we would like you to become like one of our family.

In return we can offer you a very competitive weekly wage(500GBP) for a live-in position (in our 5 bedroom detached villa,London, UK) You will have your own double bedroom with en-suite, television, DVD player, WiFi internet access and radio. We can also give you access to our car if necessary. Travel costs will be covered by us.

Alternatively, we are happy to offer the right person a a live-out position. If this was the case you must be available to work between 7.30am - 4pm Monday to Friday.

We are a very flexible, young and easy-going couple, and want you to be happy with us.

If you are really interested do get back to us soon, with the date you will like to start up duties,and Resume(CV) pictures.
Thanks.
Mr John

It's a scam. The wording leaves no doubt about it. You'd be asked to pay for the imaginary "Certificate of Eligibility".
You haven't said where you are from, but unless you are in the EU or a citizen of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or Monaco, you can't work as an au-pair in the UK.

I'm from EU (Romania).
Thank you for you answer.

I just got the same messages from Mr. John Roy!!! About his son brian, wife rose and detached villa! it didnt go far to the contract and all the papers yet. Thank you that you wrote about this guy! I'm glad I googled his mail and phone number (+447930234587). that's what he wrote me about his friend lawer though I'm a EU citizen:

"My barrister that works with The UK Home Office will prepare your Travel documents and thats good for us and he said he would get back to me with detailed visa information to go about employing an aupair. He said the visa process will take 7 business days but you should have a passport. Once I get the necessary information, I'll send it to you so that you do not make any mistakes hence make sure you wait for my travel guidance. My direct mobile is +447930234587 you can call or text me if you wish to talk to me and we love to hear your voice."

How many people is he tricking?

How many people is he tricking?

There's no way of knowing, I doubt it's possible to advertise for an au-pair job without at least one scammer contacting you.. A few find their way here, some must realise it's a scam without any help. Some victims may be too ashamed to tell anyone, and others will contact the police.

Hello irina_bar and welcome to ScamWarners. As you will have seen when you googled the phone number, this scammer uses the same phone number when pretending to be many different host families; these are just a few examples:

John Scott
Michael DeFries
Robert Carrick

Au pair scammers write to many many people at the same time, so thank you for posting the phone number here so that other au pairs who google the number will also be alerted that this is a scam.

Here is another example of an email sent by this scammer. This email was not really sent from the UK; it was sent from Nigeria, as proven by the IP address: 41.138.169.159 - Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

From: John Roy <[email protected]>
Subject: Dearest Au Pair

Thanks for the mail.

However, My name Mr. John Roy thirty five years old .I am an Executive Chef at CLARIDGE'S Hotel Group, Brook Street, Mayfair London W1K 4HR. and my home address is South Street Isle worth United Kingdom, TW7 7BG. My spouse Rose is thirty three years old and works as a Nurse.

We live in a four bedroom house in UK and have one son Brian age 3 years old. Our residence is very open and near the city and there are other au pair's 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.

However, we love our Son so much that's why we want to pay you (500GBP weekly) so you can take her as your own sister. Pocket money which we will give to you every Friday morning.

We need an au pair to start with us soon and stay until at least 3months or more. We will need you to drive our second car if you can and we shall arrange driving lessons for you when you arrive. You may use this car for buying thing for yourself and getting Brian back from school.

We are a busy family looking for a kind hearted fun au pair to mix in with our family. Our family shall assist and guide you through your visa process okay, hence if you are interested and would consider being our au pair please let me know.

For how long can you stay and when is it possible that you can start?

My barrister that works with The UK Home Office will prepare your Travel documents and that’s good for us and he said he would get back to me with detailed visa information to go about employing an au pair. He said the visa process will take 7 business days but you should have a passport. Once I get the necessary information, I'll send it to you so that you do not make any mistakes hence make sure you wait for my travel guidance. My direct mobile is +447930234587 you can call or text me if you wish to talk to me and we love to hear your voice.

Do get back to with your Resume (CV) and some picture of you.

Thanks and hope to hear from you.

Mr. John

Another email from this scammer, again sent from Nigeria: IP address 41.138.166.205 - Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

From: John Roy <[email protected]>
Subject: Dearest Au Pair

Thanks for your mail and update, and sorry for the late reply.

In regard to your mail I will like to inform you that we are a very happy family that is god fearing. Why we are really looking for an au pair is because. My sister just got an admission in to the university and she was the person that do take care Brian, and now he is very lonely which is too bad, he is just not happy about that, that why we are really looking for au pair soon as possible.

If interested do get back to us with you Resume.

Here is also my contact number fill free to give me call (+447031844525)

Thanks.

Mr. John