Au Pair Scam - perry smith <[email protected]>

[AlanJones]

The following email was received in response to a listing on an Au Pair website. This is a scam, no vacancy exists the scammer will try an scam you out of money by asking for fees or travel costs or accomodation costs.

Received from: perry smith <[email protected]>
Subject: AUPAIR NEEDED

Am perry smith and my wife is grace ,we both work for a Fabric company in London(UK).Due to the extremely busy nature of our job and our tight business schedule,we have little or no time to spend with our only child,so we need a reliable and GOD fearing applicant who will take care of our only child,because my wife and I are busy and always traveling'' kind of Couple,trying to take care of our businesses around the world,so you will be in position to take absolute care of our child.The job will require that you relocate to London if you are willing to pick up the offer and all responsibility shall be taken care of by us.Your salary will be very attractive and also negotiable,it will be something around 1300 pounds monthly (just to encourage you to perform well),there is a comfortable separate accommodation and personal car available.If you are willing and ready to pick up this job,please email me back and you will be referred to my agent for the official approach and subsequent procedures of getting your travel documents and working permit.The post is needing an urgent applicant,so please get back to us as soon as possible.we really want it to be a win-win situation for you and us, but you have to be honest with your selves and us from the beginning so you would´nt get surprised....
Regards..if you interested reply as soon as possible

I am in contact with this fake person as of right now. I placed an advertisement on craigslist and he contacted me. Poor English, such as seen in the post, instantly buying my items placed (about 10-12 items in the advertisement). He wanted my address to send the courier check, and I stupidly gave him my address. Now, if I knew better and if this wasn't the second e-mail sent back and forth between me and him, I would not have done it.

He is attempting an overpayment fraud on me. He is attempting to pay me an extreme amount over the asking price for the items. He is then having me meet someone here nearby to give the rest of the money to him. He is not giving me any details about who the person is I am meeting, or which items, if any or all of the listed items he is buying. He is also giving me an extra amount for my "troubles."

I am keeping this post as vague as possible for the sake that this is ongoing.

Welcome here mochabear.

If you are still in contact with this scammer, then the best thing to do is to stop writing to him. There is no point in going on, especially now that the scammer has your address. You are dealing with a criminal here. Could you post some emails from him? It is not unlikely that a scammer is doing several different scams, so the more that is posted here on the forums from him, the better it is.

I attempted to do so and the scam artist is continuing to e-mail me. I received a check in the mail this morning for the amount. I contacted the bank the check was written from and the bank said that the account is a fake account. I contacted the return address, which I easily found through the Internet and called the number attached to the address (it was from a university). Supposedly, this person has gotten a hold of the university's checking account number through the aforementioned bank and is forging checks in their name. I have contacted the FTC, the FBI, and local police in my area, the area the impersonator wanted me to send the information, and the police from the area where the overnight shipment came from.

After ignoring three e-mails from the person, he is now calling my phone from a blocked number. I keep hanging up on him, refusing to talk to him unless he contacts me through an unblocked number.


The fact that he knows me address scares me. Like you said, he is a criminal so I do not know what he can do. All I know is that until this blows over, people (including myself) are staying up around the clock until this is settled.

If for some reason no one hears from me again, you know something bad happened. I am not kidding, either.

Hello mochabear, I'm so glad to hear that you did the right thing regarding that check, and did not attempt to pay it into your bank account.

It can be a scary experience, knowing that you have given your address to a scammer. I do understand this and do understand your fears. However, it is very unlikely that anyone will come to your house. The scammer does not know anything about you, including how large and strong you are, how many guns you keep by the door, or how many police officers you share a house with. Furthermore, the scammer is very likely living in another country and does not have the money nor a visa to leave it. If you have any email from him which was NOT from his Gmail account, we may be able to tell you - from the headers - which country he really lives in.

This time will pass; he will give up and go away. In the meantime, please totally ignore him. Do not reply to his emails, do not speak with him on the phone, do not chat with him on Messenger. Total silence is the best way to get rid of a scammer. If you want to do this in the easiest possible way, change your email address and change your telephone number. Then he cannot contact you.

This scammers is using another email now, "[email protected]". I placed an ad on craigslist and was just contacted asking for my address, email, phone number etc so he can send me the money to pay for the item i am selling. I googled his name and came across this post so beware of the scammer [email protected].

I have recently had an email from [email protected] when I replied it was sent [email protected] almost immediately got a response in poor english. The person wanted to buy from me with out even seeing the item and wanted to mail me a bank check and then have some one else pick up the truck once I cashed the check.

I was just contacted by this person on Craigslist. It sounded a little strange that someone would send me money for and item that they haven't seen. So I googled them. Thank god for google. If it wasn't for this I might have fell victim. I will take yalls advice an ignore him but only after I sent him the jails address and phone number. I cannot believe some people!