Scams offering fake Au Pair positions
by Chris Fuller Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:27 am
This is not a genuine au pair opportunity; it is a scam. If you are looking for an au pair position in the USA, please read these US Government webpages about the US Au Pair Program:

http://exchanges.state.gov/jexchanges/p ... upair.html

http://j1visa.state.gov/participants/how-to-apply/

Do not send money to any agency, embassy, lawyer, or other person introduced to you by a potential host family.

From: alex webb <[email protected]>
Subject: Au pair needed ASAP!!!

Hello,
I'm Alex Webb, a medical doctor, live in Valley Stream, NY, in the United States. I'm a widower with a son. And I need an Au pair for my kid because am not always around. He is 7 years old. I got your contact from eaupair.com, so I decided to email you concerning my kid. I will pay $550 weekly..Please let me know if you are interested in taking care of my kid for me..Hope to read from you soon..Thanks

The following email was not sent from the USA; it was sent from Nigeria, as proven by the IP address: 82.128.53.73 - Jos, Nigeria.

The agent is also fake, and is part of the scam.

From: Alex Webb <[email protected]>

Hello,
Thanks for the interest in taking care of my son for me. His name is Bryan, 7yrs old, a lovely and reserved boy but a bit stubborn. Hope you won't mind his stubborness. My wife died 3yrs ago and since then i've been hiring au pair to take good care of my son. Hired 2 au pairs before. The last one just left last month because she wanted to see her kids. She was from France. Concerning the visa, I have an agent who have been responsible for the visa processing and all necessary documents au pair might need to come here to work. His name is Carlyle Newton and his email address is [email protected]. Pls email him, he will guide you on how to get a visa and his processing is fast. Get back to me as soon as you read from him. Here I attached some pictures of Bryan and I. Take care and hope to read from you at the earliest.

Alex
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by Chris Fuller Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:19 am
These are stolen photographs sent by this scammer, who pretends that they are photos of his own family.

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by Chris Fuller Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:36 am
This scammer is also sending these emails:

From: alex webb <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Hello Au pair!!!

Dear Au pair,

My Name is Alex Webb, I am a medical doctor and i live at New York. I need an Au Pair who will come take care of my 7 years old Bryan because My wife is late and I am always busy with my job hence I hardly have time for my son, so I need an Au pair who will come live with me and take good care of my kid. But before we proceed on that, I need to be sure about who I am hiring and get to know her better, So I will be asking you further questions which I need you to answer so I can document them. The questions are below:

Where are you from?
How many are you in your family?
Can you speak English basically?
DO you easily get angry or hot tempered?
Do you have much experience taking care of kids?
Have you worked as an Au pair before?
Have you ever traveled outside your home country?
Can you help with housework ?
Do you have a qualification either, high school, secondary, elementary, college or university?
Are you willing to Assist with light household duties ?
Do you smoke ?
Do you drink ?
Are you willing to look after my kid 24 hours a day, wake up in the morning, bath, dress and feed her, take her to school and bring her back?
Supervising homework ?
Preparing my son's meals ?
telling him bed time stories and putting my son to bed ?
Supervising and playing with my son ?
Helping to keep my son's room tidy?
Doing my son's laundry ?

I am really in need of an Au Pair, you can resume here anytime you can, My Au pair would be paid $1,500 monthly and will also be given pocket money + benefits. I need someone who can work for a minimum of 3 - 6 months and maximum of 1 - 2 years depending on the duration you are willing to stay, it is negotiable. I will gladly assist my Au pair in making sure they get the right travel documents/visa.

I will be needing you to send me some pictures of yourself and that of your family or kids you have babysit-ted / Au pair for. also to be rest assured you are a good and free from crime, i need you to get me a certificate showing that you have not committed any crime in your country so i can be rest assured Bryan is safe in your care. I await your urgent response.

Once again, these emails were not sent from the USA; they were sent from Nigeria, as proven by the IP addresses, eg 41.138.180.94 - Lagos, Nigeria.

From: Alex Webb <[email protected]>

Hello,

Thanks so much for the interest shown in taking care of my son for me. His name is Bryan, 7yrs old, a lovely and reserved boy but a bit stubborn. Hope you won't mind his stubbornness. My wife died 3yrs ago and since then I've been hiring Au pair to take care of my son. Hired 2 Au pairs before. The last one just left some months ago because she wanted to see her kids. She was from France. I'm a medical doctor by profession, my name is Alex Webb and 41yrs of age. I want you to be aware that you are to be responsible for the visa processing. I can only help you with part of the ticket because I have an personal account which all my traveling tickets are billed from. If you agree to be responsible for the visa processing, I will introduce you to the agent who did my previous Au pairs' visas. I will send you some pictures later. Take care and hope to read from you at the earliest.

From: Alex Webb <[email protected]>

Thanks for the interest. You can stay as long as you want with my family. let me ask a few more questions, What can you do to make my son happy? What interest do you have for my family? and what can my do to make you happy? All I need from you daily is to wake Bryan up, bath him, cloth him and feed him, take him to school with the car, there will be a driver for you but if you drive then there will be a car for you to take Bryan anywhere he wants to go. You will work everyday and have a just 1 free day in a week. You can go ahead and email the agent. Once you do let me know so as to tell him you are from me. His name is Carlyle Newton and his email address is [email protected]

I will like your full details such as

FIRST NAME..
LAST NAME..
FULL ADDRESS..
STATE..
COUNTRY..
CITY..
NEXT OF KIN..
SCAN OF PASSPORT...OPTIONAL
PHONE NUMBER..

So hope to hear from you soon and get back to me with the full details asked from you above...

Regards,
Dr Alex Webb

These are some more stolen photographs sent by this scammer.

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This email contains a different email address for the fake agent.

From: Alex Webb <[email protected]>

Hello,
How are you doing? I hope you are doing great and cool. I got your email with the details and i have documented them. I told you earlier that I have an agent that will get you all you need to be in the States. He will provide you with more information on how you will get your visa, ticket, working permit and house residence permit and some other necessary document. I want you to ask him how much it will cost you to get visa done from your country to New York and what documents and information are needed from you to process it. I told him about you already and he said he has another email you can reach him.. Below is the email address...email him immediately as soon as you get this email from me.

His name: Carlyle Newton
Email Address: [email protected]

As soon as you have emailed him, let me know so i can speak to him about you again. Hope to read from you at the earliest.

Regards,
Dr Alex Webb
by Chris Fuller Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:54 am
These are emails from the fake agency.

From: "carlyle newton" <[email protected]>

Attn:

I am in receipt of your inquiry based on working as an Au pair for a particular family (Webb). My name is Carlyle Newton and I have been assigned to handle all inquiries coming from you. I received a notice from Dr. Alex Webb regarding your visa and documents.

You are advised to scan the data page of your passport and send it to me, in order to have your visa application kit, documents and Working Permit papers processed.

Here are information we need for processing:

1. FULL NAME:

2. CONTACT ADDRESS :

3. CITY:

4. STATE:

5. ZIP CODE:

6. COUNTRY/NATIONALITY:

7. DATE OF BIRTH:

8. MARTIAL STATUS:

9. OCCUPATION:

10.PHONE NUMBER:


As soon as the above information are received, I will send it to the Consulate immediately, then I will let you know how much it costs to start processing your J1 Visa. Do you drive? If so, your passport photograph would be needed for your driver's license. The documents you shall be getting along the visa are: Work Permit, Residence Permit, Health Insurance Certificate and all other documents.

I shall send them along with your documents once your Visa is ready, and your host family will come to my office for the necessary forms to fill out for employing you to their home.

I shall get this done for you between 4 to 5 weeks without any delaying and send it to you Via United Parcel Service, (UPS). Kindly get back to me soon.

Best Regard,
C. Newton

From: "carlyle newton" <[email protected]>

I got all your information and it has been documented for the processing of the visa. The visa processing will cost $780 including all necessary documents. And payment must be remitted within a week from now because I've sent your name to the consulate and it would be recorded as visa to be processed. Failure to remit the payment within a week will result to removal of your name from the list.

If you drive, pls send me your scanned passport photograph. I will also need your medical report to know your health state and criminal report to know if you have been involved in any crime before. You can get these from your medical doctor and nearest police station respectively. But it would be 2 weeks after commencing on your visa.

You are to remit the payment via western union money transfer because of safe, fast and efficient service. Get back to me to let me know what day you remitting the payment so as to give you the information where to send the payment to.

Hope to read from you soon.
Regards
C. Newton

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