Please help me is this a scam

Is this a scam??

Hello,

My name is Maria. I am banking frame. I am in charge of clientele in a merchant bank. My husband is a manager of real estate agency.

Jenny-Léa is very girly. She likes to sing, dance as soon as she comes back from school. She likes painting, drawing, riding poneys and swimming. She is only 4 but I feel she is very mature for her age.
I really need someone who likes spending time our child.She is very receptive to adult moods and my daughter love to have a "big sister" with whom she can play.
You will work 30 hours per week. We believe that being an au pair it requires to be organised, and most important of all, to really enjoy spending time with child.
We enjoy family life, and we really want to see our daughter laugh and play with someone they love. That is why we also want to make sure that you will be very happy with us and that you will feel "at home". You will have a independant bedroom with dedicated shower room and toilet. There are also lots of au pairs in New York and you will certainly find friends among them.
We are looking for someone who is mature, firm and loving. Someone who is active and has lots of energy will be necessary to keep up with our daughter!You would be our fifth au-pair in as many years and we have not had a bad experience yet. We would be able to put you in touch with our prior au-pairs for you to reference us too. We are a fun-loving household if a bit noisy, and as long as you are flexible and a good communicator, we will get along well.

Feel free to email directly to my email adress since my account on [email protected] has some errors in receiving the mesages.

Thank you
Sincerely,

Maria

Hi Maria,

Thank you for taking a look at my profile!

It would be great to nurture and take care of your 4 years old daughter. ( She has a unique and nice name)

I would have some questins in connection with the job.:

Could you tell me which part of NY do you live?

What duties should i fulfil exactly? I mean should i do housework or take her to school ect. ?

How much money would i earn?

Thank you

Best wishes




Thank you for your words.

You re very lovely too.

We would love to have you around us.Now i need to know the term in order to set up the documents for Visa and for the aupair contract.Will be for 6 months or 12 months?


This is the agency's website : http://www.aupairinamerica.com/


I came into contact with the agency and they told me how is the procedure:

I ve been on the phone today with the Embassy and I ve told them about your past experience with children and about our intentions to have you in our family.
They send me by email the documents we need to get your Visa.

Please take a look at the attachements.

The photo instructions are from the Embassy and the rest of the photos belongs to our former aupair who unfortunately needs to leave soon in May or June.

As soon as we have those documents from you ,we can start the proceedure for the Visa.

In exchange for 30 hours of work per week, you will receive:
board ticket and Visa costs
$ 300 in pocket money per week
4 weeks' paid vacation if you stay for the full year (respectively 2 days each month)
monthly transportation card or use of family car
your own private room
costs of local transportation to the language school
a unique opportunity to live abroad affordably, make new friends and experience new adventures!

As far as i ve heard is a little bit difficult for your country to get a US Visa but im willing to try it...

If they approve your Visa,we shall go on with the aupair contract and the rest of the details.

Greetings

Maria

She also sent some pictures of a girl holding her ID in her hands to show me how to take pictures of myself and my ID.

Thank you very much for your help

Mod edit: taken out name of poster. DJ

Dear Susique,
Welcome to scamwarners and thank you for posting your concerns. Unfortunately it looks like a scam to me. Take a look at this link about au pair scams, some things should look very familiar:
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=3019

In particular, sending photos by email is not the real procedure for getting a visa/work permit - this is how they will try to steal your money (by making you pay for some aspect of this procedure).
The email you posted also has several telltale signs of fraud.

One additional note - in this scam they are referring to the website "aupairinamerica.com" - this is being done to make the scam look more realistic, they hope you will look at that website and think "this looks like a professional, legitimate organisation". In fact they are not at all involved with the "au pair in america" site, which has an anti-scam disclaimer stating in part, "Au Pair in America and our host families NEVER ask for personal information or money via email".

Can you please post the email address from the agency, and any other email addresses that are involved with this scam - sometimes potential victims search for email addresses and this would help lead them here.