Au Pair Scam - LORI BRADFORD

[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: LORI BRADFORD <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: AUPAIR NEEDED
IP Address: 41.219.236.99 Nigeria (Lagos)

About Me........

My name is Lori Bradford..I have a 5 year-old daughter, Carrie.

I am a doctor who cares greatly about pregnant women in my own hospital. As a busy person, I am seeking a nanny/aupair to care for Carrie. I am looking for a person who is honest and trustworthy

The Nanny,must give my child special care to include swimming together in the pool, cooking(sometimes), a little cleaning with me, etc. The Nanny/Aupair will be given a car to drive my daughter to ballet class and anywhere else she needs to be taken. I do not mind if the person I will employ would like to be accompanied by their friend or boy/girl friend.

The job will provide room and board in my home. My household will include this person as a family member, as I am a caring mother. My husband is a Naval Official working with The USA government. He would like to meet you also and if you really want to work with us, it will be most appreciated if you can respond to the questions below:

1) How old are you?
2) What is your religious background? (we are a Christian, churchgoing family)
3) What qualifications do you posses for this position?
4) Have you certificates proving your career to date?
5) Do you have any criminal records?
6) Do you have extraordinary habits

I look forward to hearing from you.



Sincerely,

Mrs. Lori

[AlanJones]

Reply received from scammer

Received from: LORI BRADFORD <[email protected]
Subject: RE: AUPAIR NEEDED
IP Address: 41.219.201.188 Nigeria (Lagos)

Hello

Thanks for the email and for your interest in being an Aupair for my family. This position is critical to the well-being of my child.

They are 2 Children, 9months and 5years, and you will have a place to live in the house here in a funished private.

The salary is $2,500USD monthly, with the understanding that you will sign a contract to stay a minimum of 6 months. I will be the one to purchase your return ticket for you to come to United States and you will be the one to pay for your visa and document fee.

Please contact my agency via this email and ask them how much it will cost you to get documents processed to come to the US. Here is there email: [email protected]

This is the complete information needed from you so I can register it down on my computer as my new Aupair employee..and help you get your ticket ready as i want you to start work as soon as possible.

FULL NAME
FULL ADDRESS
NEXT OF KIN..
SCAN OF PASSPORT
PHONE NUMBER..

I have attached some pictures of Carrie, Laurie and I, in this email for you to see. So I hope to hear from you soon and I want you to get back to me with the full details asked from you above...And send me some recent pictures of you and family also.

Warmest Regards
Lori.

[AlanJones]

And a reply received from the 'travel agent'

Received from: http://WWW.USA.TRAVEL AGENCY.COM <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: FORWARDED BY OUR CLIENT FOR J1 VISA: LORI BRADFORD

Hello Dear Aupair Consuela,

Thank You for getting to us, we are KLM agency and we get visas and other traveling documents for Aupairs. We shall be getting you a J1 Visa is a visa that enables Aupairs to live, work and move freely within the United States Of America. So we will like you to get back to us with the following

FIRST NAME..
LAST NAME..
FULL ADDRESS..
STATE..
COUNTRY..
CITY..
ZIPCODE..
SCAN OF PASSPORT
PHONE NUMBER..
FAX NUMBER


We shall need this infos in other to get some visa documents and some working permit papers for you, and as soon as you have send this details to us, we shall get this done between 1 to 2 week or you without any delaying, and send it to you Via our agency courier service and its a 3 days delivery. so our term of payment is through Western Union Money Transfer to our customer care center,And you have to send me 250.00 USD for all the document and visa and your host family who refered you to us has told me she will be the one to hire you as a nanny for her child and pay for your flight ticket too.she ask us to make your papers and document done for you and it will be nice if you can send to me the money this week or next week and we will start working on your papers and document.. and you will have to send to me the money with this info below:

Name: Karen Jane Johnson
City: Altha
State: FL
Zip: 32421

Western union is the only means of payment and the reason why we normally recieve a payment through western union is that, we have been scammed through bank acct before, so we have been cautioned not to get into it again, so we i'll need to start processing with your travelling details and ship them to you as soon as it was ready, but we just hope you will get it before your traveling date week unfailingly.

Warmest Regards,
Karen Johnson,
Travel Agent.

The scammer who listed this contact name and recipient address

Name: karen Johnson
City: Altha
State: FL
Zipcode: 32421

has changed to

JAMES ABBOTT
City: CLARKDALE
State: GA
Zip Code: 30111

This scam ring contacted me because of my craigslist ad regarding a room I am renting. They pretended to be out of town and in need of payment to the "shipper" of the prospective roommate's belongings. To that end, they sent me via UPS four WELLS FARGO money orders in the amount of $1000 each (counterfeit, of course). They requested I deposit the phony money orders in my account and (without delay or waiting for the money orders to clear at my bank) send a "shipping" payment of $2800 to the above address in Florida, then they changed it to the address below in Georgia.

They contacted me as "Chloe Brian".

They use this email addresses:

[email protected]

The UPS envelope listed this return address:

JOHN CARPENTER
BANTY ART GALLERY
PHILADELPHIA

The website for this "gallery" is banty-art.com
and the website's banner aptly shows sharks attacking an innocent victim.

The website's contact page also lists these multiple addresses

Banty Art Gallery
1984 Richmond Avenue.
Mid-esse London 1016 VD,
United Kingdom

Phone : +447045767819
+447035937572

Email : [email protected]


United State Agent
BRINTON MIKE
4419 HON DR
KANSAS CITY, MO 64150

Phone : +1816 399 3756


Email : [email protected]