Arch Ferdinand Powler - is this a scam

My Name is Arch Ferdinand Powler. A Canadian by nationality but leaving and working in United Kingdom. I was browsing through mydearaupair.com and i saw your profile which caught my attention and also pass my criteria to take care of my children. So for that, i decided to contact you to see if you will like to care for my children and in return you will be paid #1,550GBP and will also be given a weekly bonus pay of #150GBP we are perhaps paying this much so that you can put in your best in caring for our children.

About my family:

We are very easy going, warm, accommodating and down to earth family who take every body the way they are irrespective of who they are there color origin e.t.c and we love sport for me Football and Badminton for my Wife Long tennis and swimming and we live in a very big city in London the city of Hertfordshire.

My wife and children are warm and loving although most times talkative and they are very easy to get along with.

Please if you will be interested on the offer, do get back to me with your current pictures and introduction letter which must carry your FULL NAME, ADDRESS, and PHONE NUMBER. On receiving of your response, we will let you know more about us and also please bear it in mind that we need you urgently.

Sincerely Yours

Arch Ferdinand Powler
Hertfordshire, London
United Kingdom.

It's a scam.

There are several problems with the email, but the most obvious is the writing itself, which tells me the author is neither Canadian nor British. The writing is very distinctly African.

This is the email address used by this scammer:

[email protected]

i am on thorough search of finding out if this is a scam. But do base on the comments i would consider this a scam. although they are not asking me to send out money..... hayyyssss. why lots of people keeps on doing non sense and fool fellows in this way.. It is really funny...

From what I can see it gets down to basic mathematics. From the mass mail out of the same email, only a small number would need to respond to bring the scammer a nice tidy profit. For example if 200 emails are sent to various people, there may 20 responses. Lets say 10 of the respondees send 200 dollars each. That is 2 grand of profit the scammer attracts without paying tax on it. All the email addresses that respond are then sold or passed on to other scammers. They do this with the knowledge their activities will probably not be scrutinised by the law enforcement.

i also received an email., fowler keeps calling my phone now...

Hi shyne25. Are you able to publish the phone number of the scammer? Any additional information helps.

Just number 0. he stops calling now. good thing though.. but im concerned i have sent him scanned copies of my passport. should i be worried?.. actually im scared.. please help me...

Don't worry about sending passport scans to an au pair scammer. They get lots of passport scans, and they do not even bother to look at them. They only ask for them to sound real, as if the fake family is seriously interested in you.