Fred and Jann - [email protected]

This is not a genuine au pair opportunity; it is a scam. This scammer also sends introductory emails from this email address: [email protected] - you can read more about this here:

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He also uses the email address: [email protected]

Sender: [email protected]
From: Fred <[email protected]>
Reply-to: [email protected]
Subject: Au pair/Nanny Service...

Au pair/Nanny Service
My name is Fred and my wife´s name is Jann. I´m working as a CEO of a
recruitment company and my wife is an orthodontist. We live in a
beautiful part of Brent. We are looking for a social, friendly and
outgoing au pair for our two beautiful boys Alek and Seb. You will be
an important part of our family, so we really want you to feel
included. We hope that you find the position interesting and that you
will send us an email! You can also reach me on 44 702 407 9758.

These are two of the stolen photographs which this scammer is sending, pretending that they are photos of himself and his wife.

From: Fred Johnson <[email protected]>
Subject: Further Details

Thanks for responding, we are looking for a reliable and responsible aupair who will become a member of the family and an older sister to the children as well as having lots of fun with us. You will be asked to work 6/7 hours a day mon-fri with 2 days off normally at the weekends. We have 2 boys namely Alek and Seb, they are fun to be with, intelligent, smart and obedient. I need someone who will help with the children's daily care - meal preparation, taking them to and from school, playing with them for 3/4 hours 2/3 days a week before I am home from work, bath-time, bed times, taking the kids on outings/trips, playing fun games with them, washing and ironing and light housework. You will have plenty of free time to go to language school in the local town and there are many families nearby and I can introduce you to many au pairs.
We are looking for a lovely fun au pair to come and join our family and help us out. Until now we have had a great nanny helping us with the children but the aupair contract will end soon so we need a replacement, someone to help us with the children and the house whilst giving them a base in the UK to explore the UK and Europe. We live in a beautiful part of Brent. It is in the countryside but you will have use of one of our cars if you have driving experience but it is not a problem if you can't drive as we can enroll you in a driving lesson as soon as you start working with us and we are only a 10 minute drive from the local town and 20 minute drive from two major cities.
The children are all really good fun. Seb is 6 years old and he's always busy either at school, playing sport or seeing friends and going shopping!. He is our sensitive gentle one who loves doing arts and crafts but also going on bike rides and lots of outdoor fun. Alek the youngest is 2 years old and he and his brother have lots of fun together and are great friends. There will be a few hours a week of sole charge of Alek until next September when he will be at school until 3.30. Until then he finishes school 2-3 days a week at 1.00 pm but I will be home from work between 4-5 daily. In the school holidays, I would ask you to have as much fun as possible with the boys! We have a large 3 bedroom house with big garden and swimming pool. We hope to pay £12 hourly plus bus ticket worth £95 weekly and we will also provide you with a mobile phone with some inclusive minutes each month and the rest would be your responsibility. We would love a friendly, cheerful aupair with a sense of humor and fun!
Before we proceed further we will still like you to answer these few questions.
1) What is your nationality?
2) Have you ever traveled outside your home country before?
3) Have you much experience working with kid’s?
4) Do you smoke?
5) Do you drink?
6) Do you have brothers and sisters?
7) Do you Drive
8) Do you mind doing light cooking?
9) Can you help with shopping?
10) Can you help with housework?
Hope to hear from you soon.

The UK Immigration Solicitors/UK Travel Solicitors is also fake, and is part of the scam. This email was not sent from the UK; it was sent from Nigeria, as proven by the IP address: 41.155.36.131 - Lagos, Nigeria.

From: Fred Johnson <[email protected]>

I am satisfied with your response and i definitely believe you will be a good companion for our children. Our main priority is for you to be a friendly and kids loving person and with all i have read of you so far i believe you are.
I will like you to confirm the arrival date better and let me know of that in due time so that i can also plan our schedule ahead to pick you up at the airport when you arrived. Mind you try and choose a weekend arrival so that i can be well available to give you every support necessary.
Henceforth, i want you to contact the law firm in charge of the processing of your travel and working documents. The name of the law firm is UK IMMIGRATION SOLICITORS and they are based in United Kingdom, they also have chambers in United States and Russian Federation. The law firm help my previous aupairs to process there travel documents, they are fast in the processing and there charges is very much affordable compared to other travel companies in UK.
The travel solicitors contact details is as follows.
Company Name: UK Travel Solicitors
Contact person: Andrea Bratta
Email: [email protected]
Contact the travel solicitors immediately for the processing of your travel and working papers and get back to me.
Hoping to read from you ASAP.

I recently received job offers from this man as an aupair.. All contents in his email to me are the same as this.. And what i noticed about their emails is that they don't address their emails to you. They only start with Hi or Dear.. without including your name in it.. They don't read the content of your reply. Even if you tell them that you are not available to do the job, they would still send you back an email asking you to answer their interview questions. They are like computer-generated replies..

Yes, that is well-observed! Most scammers have a series of pre-written emails to send, and when an au pair replies to an email, the scammer just sends their next pre-written email in response. Some clever scammers, however, will take time to read your email, and write a personal message back - receiving a personally written email is not proof that the family is genuine!

Here, though, is a definitely pre-written email sent from the fake travel agency. Like the emails from the fake host family, it was not really sent from the UK; it was sent from Nigeria: IP address 41.155.78.59 - Lagos, Nigeria.

From: Andrea Bratta <[email protected]>

Thanks for contacting UK Travel Solicitors, we are a UK based Travel Agency Company and we help caregiver all over the world to process there papers including UK working papers, tax clearance and the contract forms with other legal documents which are the necessary primary documents needed before you can qualify to work in the UK. We process papers mainly for Au pairs and the host family whom you will be working with already inform us of your application and he has instructed us to help you process all your papers soon so that you can come to Uk for the Job.
The price for processing all the above listed documents is 753GBP . So contact us with the requirements and payment soon to avoid delay in the processing.
We need some more details from you to proceed with the Working permit and the tax clearance, below are the details needed.
FULL NAME:
FULL ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
NATIONALITY:
PASSPORT NUMBER:
STATE & ZIP CODE:
PHONE NUMBER:
SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE, PRIMARY OR SECONDARY (OPTIONAL)
TIME AND DATE YOU WANT TO FLY FROM YOUR LOCATION TO UK?
We will also like to know if you are eligible to work and live in the UK. You are eligible if you are okay with the following:
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DEPOTED FROM THE UK BY THE UK GOVERNMENT ?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN COUGHT FOR A CRIMINAL PURPOSE ?
DID U HAVE A PASSPORT?
IF YES SCAN VIA EMAIL
Email us as soon as possible and let us know if you can provide us the following details so that you can fill the application and visa form. This form must be filled out completely. We will start the processing of your application as soon as we receive the application form from you and the payment.
UK Travel Solicitors. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVE YOU BETTER.

Andrea Bratter
UK Travel Solicitors

Tel: +44 703 590 6460
Fax: +44 844 774 5437
Email: [email protected]
Worldwide Travel Ltd
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0021. La Jolla, CA
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Here is another email from the fake travel agency. The fake travel agency also uses this email address:

[email protected]

From: Andrea Bratta <[email protected]>

Thank you for sending us the required details, you are required to send us the payment immediately so that we can start the processing of your travel and working documents without delay as we cannot start the processing without the payment. We will start the processing of your application as soon as we receive the application form from you and the payment. We will like to inform you that at this time we can accept only payment by western union money transfer so you will make payment to us by western union money transfer via the information below. The payment should be sent to the staff in charge of your application via western union money transfer. Hence, you will send the payment to the details below.
Name: Fxxxx Bxxxx
Address: xx Essex road, London, UK.
UK TRAVEL SOLICITORS

Andrea Bratter
UK Travel Solicitors

Tel: +44 703 590 6460
Fax: +44 844 774 5437
Email: [email protected]
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Worldwide Travel Ltd
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0021. La Jolla, CA