Whitehouse Family

Is this a scam??

First Mail
Hello Au Pair,

We would like to welcome you into our family. Your profile was shortlisted from www. Kangaroo au pair.com .We are looking for a caring person to look after our wonderful daughter. I will expect to have an Au pair that is mature, competent, experience and focus at all times We live in a beautiful spacious home in London, United Kingdom You will have your own private and large bedroom with en suite bathroom Your bedroom has TV, DVD, and stereo and internet access.

We have one girl. Our princess is 3 years old and the best little girl in the world and loves to chat she is a very friendly, fun loving child. She will be going to playschool two mornings a week. She loves stories and books. We need general help looking after our princess , getting her dressed, preparing simple food and feeding her ,playing with her , waking her up in the morning, getting her dressed and giving her breakfast, taking her to the park and music groups, reading stories and playing with them. Occasionally picking our her up from nursery (10 minutes walk away). Keeping her bedroom tidy and generally helping me with my daily routine. Some ironing is needed but we have a cleaner so the house work is very light.


The most important thing for us is that our Au pair loves children. We would like you to be a friend and be loving towards our child. We would like someone who has some experience in childcare. We are looking for a person who is caring and understanding, patient and kind. You will need to be able take our little princess to school in the mornings and collect her in the afternoon using a bus or our spare car. You would drop our little girl to play school two mornings and collect her after 3 hours. We would need you to prepare a light lunch for her for school. She is such a joy. She is so gorgeous, a gentle little girl. Everyone that comes to visit is immediately wrapping their arms around her!! She loves loves kisses and hugs!! She will be your everyday friend! You would also be required to help her with her home work and play with her.( If you are interested in my job offer, kindly get back to me with your updated CV and some pictures of yourself for perusal. Cheers and keep in touch.

Warm Regards,
Mrs. Whitehouse (for the family

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Hello NAME,

I hope you are doing great? Thank you for your mail. It's nice to know you love children. My husband and would l love it if you would send us your updated CV. We all look forward to meeting you herein the UK. My daughter's name is Victoria, Cheers and keeps in touch.

Warm Regards,
Mrs. Katie Whitehouse
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Hello NAME,


I hope you are doing great? The content of your mail has been noted. Thank you for your mail which shows your seriousness in my job offer and my husband and I appreciate that a lot. I work as a health worker and my husband works in Nuffield Hospital as a doctor. My husband is soccer fan and loves watching Chelsea and also loves fishing and hunting. I also love reading novels and watching movies.

Your other duties will entail keeping her room tidy, making her bed, dusting and & changing the sheets weekly. You need to do her ironing and keep her clothes neat and tidy. You need to supervise homework and most of all HAVE FUN!You will also be required to do her laundry, make light meals for her and also take her for walks in the park. We are usually home by 6. I will be paying your flight ticket for your trip to London. My daughter is 3 years old. We would love you to start as soon as possible but this is negotiable you can also suggest a date.

We are looking for someone to muck in and help out generally as any member of the family would. You will need to babysit a couple of times a week and also be happy about us popping back to work in the evening if you are at home anyway. We need someone to be flexible - as we will be if you would like to take time off if your family visits or you have a holiday. When we go on holiday as a family you will usually be welcome but we can also arrange for you to stay home of you prefer. I will help you enroll in a language school language school as to help you improve your English. We need you to start as soon as possible but this is negotiable.

My husband and I have gone through your CV and we are impressed with it. I have contacted my lawyer and asked him to prepare our Contract Offer; I will be sending you the Contract Offer once it is ready, but before I send you my offer I would love to know you better. Please answer the below questions.
1) Why did you decide to become an au pair?

2) What are your aims and objectives in life?

3) What kind of person are you( your likes and dislikes)?

4) How do you intend to impact positively in my daughter's life?


5) Do you get angry easily?

My husband and I are really excited about having you in our home and we hope we will all have a wonderful time together as a family. Hope to hear from you soon.

Warm Regards,

Mrs. Whitehouse

[AlanJones]

Hello Coore

It's a scam I'm afraid.

The quality of the English in the first email is better than many that I have seen, but there are still some indicators in that mail that it was written by a non-native English speaker. When I got to the 3rd email I was sure as it has definite African touches to it.

Also a search on the sentence "We live in a beautiful spacious home in " brings up other scam emails, complete with the same grammatical errors in them.

Unfortunately, I only had to glance at this one to tell you it is fake. I didn't even have to really read it or look at the English, because I recognized this line immediately:

Everyone that comes to visit is immediately wrapping their arms around

I responded to a member asking about this script yesterday (the scammer was using another name and had turned the daughter into a son). That script has been around a while, as you can see.

http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=34068&p=87956
http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=28854

This scammer is currently using the following email address:

[email protected]

I got the same email. Thought it was to god to be true.
If you Search the Barrister alot of scams come up aswell


I hope you are doing great? My husband and I have gone through your
resume and we are greatly impressed with it so kindly find the
Contract Offer that is approved by the UK HOME OFFICE.

On receipt of this e-mail, Please scan the signed contract letter and
send to Barrister Anna Wright via email:
[email protected] so she can advise us on the
things we are to do to make your journey to London a smooth one.

UK Immigration Solicitors | Immigration Lawyers | London
206 Merton High Street South Wimbledon London SW19 1AX
Sunrise Chambers
EMAIL: [email protected]
Do well to keep me abreast of your progress with Barrister Wright and
please indicate your nationality to the lawyer.

NOTE: PLEASE INDICATE TO THE LAWYER WHERE YOU ARE TRAVELING FROM AND
DATE YOU WISH TO ARRIVE LONDON, YOUR COUNTRY OF
BIRTH AND THE AIRPORT YOU WISH TO DEPART FROM. We wait to receive you
when you arrive. Let me know as soon as you receive this mail. God
bless you as you come.

Warm Regards,
Mrs. Katie Whitehouse

Hello caelarose, and welcome to ScamWarners. Thank you for posting this email and the address of the fake barrister. I'm glad that you researched this person, and discovered that it is a scam.

In reality, the UK Home Office does not issue nor approve contracts - this is a scammer's invention.

For genuine information about how to apply for a visa to become an au pair in the UK, please see:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas ... /applying/

Never send money, or make any type of money transfer, on the instruction of a host family, or on the instruction of any agency, embassy, lawyer, or other person who was introduced to you by a host family.

I have the same e-mails and also,they sent me the contract... I´m furious!I nearly have been of buy the tickets and go!!!
They sent me photos too, of a pretty girl dressed with a swimming costume and other with a blue dress!

The same happened to me!!!! THANK YOU for helping me discover this fake. What else can we do to help other people not to believe them? I sent them an email telling them about this fake and they answered me with only insults (that I don't care).
Where can we alert people?
Thank you again for posting this information!

Welcome here DelLR.

By posting the names, email addresses and scam emails many potential victims can be saved. You could also spread the word around amongst your friends, write about it in blogs, social networking sites etcetera. The more people know about these scams, the less victims there will be.

I have written to the site and I have told them what happened to me.

I got this e-mail:


"This is to inform you that you were recently contacted by the Family [349508], Katie from United Kingdom which as per our investigation team may be fraud or scammer so be careful while discussing Job offer with the family.

You are requested not to share any personal documents with the family and do not send any money until you are fully satisfied that family and Job offer provided by family is genuine.

We also request you to report us the family on [email protected] if you also find that family is fraud or scammer during anytime of job offer discussion with family."

I am a little bit happier and satisfied but I am afraid that there are a lot of scams.

I have written to the best known Hungarian TV to warn Hungarian girls and women.

My previously letter that you did not get:

I am a Hungarian student girl and the same happened to me. I have got the same e-mails and photos.
I am very disappointed and I fear to look for a job in the UK.

Unfortunately, I have an airplane ticket to London (11th of July...) and I have to find something.

I do not know what could I do.

I'm sorry that you have had this experience, auraandrea.

It is probably a bit too late now to arrange something for next week, but for future reference:

You may prefer to to seek an au pair position through an agency which is a member of the International Au Pair Association (IAPA), or an agency which is a member of the British Au Pairs Agencies Association (BAPAA). You can find a list of IAPA member agencies in your country, or in the UK, here:

http://www.iapa.org/members/member-list/

And a list of BAPAA member agencies here:

http://www.bapaa.org.uk/directory.asp?page=20

For other types of work, as you are a European citizen, if you are prepared to arrange your own accommodation or have somewhere to stay in London, you can search for employment vacancies here:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ ... G_10030134

And you may also like to contact an agency which is a member of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC). Like the IAPA and BAPAA au pair agencies, these are reliable agencies who agree to a Code of Practice to safeguard jobseekers. You can find REC member agencies here:

https://www.rec.uk.com/membersarea/dire ... .asp?dir=1

Some agencies may require au pairs or jobseekers to pay a registration or placement fee. Other agencies charge a fee to the host family or employer only.

Thank you for your answer!

I am going to visit my friends in Norwich, so I won't "loose" the ticket.

I am not very good at speaking English. Could you tell me how do you know that the scams are Africans?
I can't imagine what could scams do with an Au Pair (yes... I have some tips... but I do not know exactly...).

The aim of all internet scammers is to steal money from people. There are many ways that au pair scammers can do this, and you can read about many of these methods here:

Overview of Au Pair Scams

You can also read there a few ways to protect yourself from au pair scams.

Not all scams come from West Africa; they come from many other countries as well, including European countries. The majority of Au Pair Scams are sent from Nigeria, however; some from South Africa, some from Malaysia; and we have seen them sent from Dubai, the UK, and the USA as well.

There is a difference between UK- or USA-English and Nigerian-English, and sometimes we can recognise the origin of the writer by this. At other times, we know which country the the emails have been sent from because the IP address in the header (a hidden but easily accessible part of all emails) shows us the location of the sender.

I hope you have an enjoyable time in Norwich; it's a very nice city!

This scam family contacted me on Au Pair Garden aupairgarden.com
here is the profile http://aupairgarden.com/families/552-ka ... ed-kingdom

their picture: http://aupairgarden.com/system/images/2 ... 1362740918
the message: it's the same as written in the profile

"Dear Au pair,

i am looking for an Au pair to come to United Kingdom. i have two little girls that is 5 and 3 years old to look after. My family is active which makes us a fun and loving family.i love my kids a lot and i will also want any one coming here to be honest and also Loving….

i would like an Au pair to look after my Daughters carefully and do light housework when they are asleep . i would like the apair to be a part of the family during your stay and teach us about your culture and language in exchange.

i would like an Au pair that is active and outgoing who will be happy to take my kids outdoors and for walks and talk to them, play with them and read books,poems with them etc.there is a Good salary Offer for you 2000 pounds monthly and 235 pounds weekly for your up keep.You can do other Jobs so you can make it in Life, have money and help a family, a colleague of mine
gave me this site to sign on , because she got her Nanny from this site and her nanny is Loving, caring,daring and Hard working. and she is doing fine here in UK…

If you are interested in my offer kindly write to me soon.

Looking forward to hear from you.

With love.

Mr. Katie Whitehouse"

Such lovely grammar