Albert Paxton - [email protected]

This is not a genuine au pair opportunity; it is a scam.

From: Albert Paxton's Family <[email protected]>
Subject: New Aupair (Albert Paxton's Family)

Dear Au pair,

We are Paxton's family from United States of America. We are a nice and fun loving family and currently based in London, England (UK). We require the services of an Au pair who would take care of our kid. Our busy schedule prompted us to seek the assistance of an Au pair, we searched for an Au pair on the Au pair site and we found your profile and liked it. Your basic duties would be to take care of our kid.

We have a maid who would undertake of housework hence your basic responsibility is with our kid. Indicate your interest by sending us your recent picture, phone number and an introductory letter about yourself for us to evaluate and consider you for the position.

I have attached some of our family pictures here for you to see. Let us hear from you so that we can discuss more on the offer. You can contact us on this e mail address [email protected] for more information with regards to this offer.

Regards Mr. Albert Paxton

For the family

Phone: +447024091901

I have recently recieved the same e-mail. I answered them and they have send me a contract. I don't understand with kind of scam can be this. It's very strange that they have send me a contract, photos, and they have called me. They also say me to me that they will be at the airport waitting for me.

And also I have read on internet that the phone 44 701 297 8775 is a time. All the phones that starts with 447 are all a swindle.

Could you help me and splain about this? What kind of scam can be? They will ask me for money? How do they know my information if they are not in the web site that they told me?

Thank so much for your help, I'm interesting in know about that cases.

Laura

There is no job, and the scammers are not in UK waiting for you.

They will first convince you that you really have a job waiting for you, then they will move on to stealing your money.

Most often, they will refer you to a fake home office, immigration agency, or barrister, who will tell you that you have to send money for documents so that you can work in UK.

Sometimes they will tell you that something has happened, and that they won't have a room for you. They will refer you to someone else who has a convenient apartment available, but you will need to send a deposit to reserve it.

In the end, any money you are requested to send, no matter who you are sending it to, will go directly to the scammers.

Thank you so much for the information. It has sound very strange at the first time. So much money for take care of children.

Now I'm asking them about anything to see how far they will go.

Where they take the photos? In facebook for another family?

I have told them:

1- If I have to pay something in advance. I'll see how de answer me.
2- How will they pay me the travel...
3- Photos

I want to see if they send me the same photos of the other time or different. I'm very disapointed with this topic. There are scammers for all.

Thank you so much.

Laura

Yes, au pair scammers steal photographs for their scams from people's Facebook or MySpace profiles, blogs, personal websites, or anywhere else that they can find them. Some other scammers use photographs of models, and may even purchase a set of stock photographs to use in their scams.

The real people in the photographs are totally unconnected to the scams, and usually have no idea that their family photographs are being abused in this way.

When you realise that you are writing to a scammer, however, please stop all contact immediately. Scammers are criminals, and you don't want to continue writing to a criminal. If they suspect that you have been wasting their time, they can become very unpleasant. But if you simply stop communicating with them, they will assume that you have lost interest in their offer, and they will soon forget all about you.