Bryan Sheppard - help, is this a possible scam ?

I have received this email. Their family profile exists on the website i posted but i am still in doubt.
Help me to determine please if they are scammers. Thank you so much.



On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 1:16 AM CST (China) Bryan Sheppard wrote:

HI THERE! BRYAN SHEPPERD HERE IN THE UNITED STATES NEED
A GOOD LOVING AND CARING NANNY/ BABYSITTER TO GIVE A
HAND IN THE CARE OF OUR BOY. WE READ YOUR PROFILE ON xxxxxx.
WE BUSY AND NEED A HELPING AND WE SHALL TREAT YOU EQUALLY
LIKE OUR OWN.. YOUR LOCATION DOESNT MATTER TO US RIGHT NOW
BECAUSE WE WANT TO BRING YOU HERE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
>IT ALL DEPENDS ON SOON U WANNA BE HERE.
GET BACK SOON ENOUGH...

BRYANDelete Re


From: Bryan Sheppard

MORE ABOUT FAMILY AND JOB Wed, Nov 23, 2011 5:16 PM CST (China)y




Hi There!


good to hear back from you Au pair. We are so happy to know someone like you is willing to come over here to work for us... Just to remind you again We Live in Cincinnati, Ohio. Postal code 45212.
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Our main purpose of getting across to you is that we need a caring person to take care of our boy.. he is just
4 years old and my wife(Clara) and i are not always home to help him with his homework, play, and health care. Now you know what the job looks like. Just take good care of him and i can assure you of a good times here in the United States.

Your Reward and facilities attached to this is... Your fat salary which will be $430 in a week with other benefits and allowance and will be increase with time. And besides you have a well furnished and modern room to your self with all the necessary electronic gadget with computer.

We live in the city and we are well respected and loving family.. The family hobbies including,playing games,
playing football, tennis, picnics and swimming sometimes but is not necessary you know to cos we do that on weekends and my wife and i will be there. Membership No: xxxxxx

About traveling to the United States... We are so much aware of the fact that immigration to the USA seems to be a very hard one recently due to the changed immigration policy that we here are aware of but never too worry because we have a Licensed Immigration officer that works with the BUREAU IMMIGRATION CONSULAR that would be on ground and give a helping in your Papers Processing and you can be here in a Legit way cos i will be part of this processing too and go through all the documentation i have to with your co-operation.

Your arrival date: we will have love it to be on or before the mid of next month. Main reason is that we want you to be familiar with the kids in the next festive period..etc Xmas so that you can blend into the family and equally be one of us... But you can also tell us when exactly you will be able to leave your present country but not too late.

I have said alot about the job now. So i will leave you to tell me more about now, your present country? how old are you? Your beliefs in Kids care? Present job?

We will be sending your couple of pics in our next email and more so we don't wanna waste time with this. And Please dont waste our time too.. Serious and Ambitious Minded Person only.

Hope to hear back soon.

Bryan Shepperd's Family AND J

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Yes, that is a scam, and the Bureau Immigration Consular Officer is also fake, and is part of the scam. Could you post the email address this scammer is using? That will help to warn other au pairs about this scam, when they google that address.

In reality, the US Government currently allows 13 sponsors only to run Au Pair programs in the USA. You can read about this here:

http://j1visa.state.gov/programs/au-pair/

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

And you will find a list of designated sponsors here:

http://j1visa.state.gov/participants/ho ... =&x=14&y=8

You must go through one of those agencies if you wish to become an au pair in the United States.

You would still need to apply for your visa yourself, at the US Embassy or Consulate in your own country. You can find the website and contact details of the US Embassy in your own country here:

http://www.usembassy.gov/

Scammers pretend that they can obtain a visa for you, but this is not true.

Thank you for the help and the info, really helped me a lot.
Here is the email address the scammer has used: [email protected].

Hi definitely a scam I received the same email too..I tried to trace he's IP but it was protected and he's
Using different IPs but the same email address and format..

Here is another example of an email from this scammer.

From: Bryan Sheppard <[email protected]>
Subject: Interested Nanny should get back to this email by writing Yes i am interested

Interested Nanny should get back to this email by writing Yes i am interested....

We don't accept aupair couple and applicant should be 20yrs and above. Please if you are talking to a family already pls stay out of this ads is not meant for you . And lastly aupair must be ready to move soon.

Mind this job details. and if you are sure about this then reply sending more information about you

Thanks