Dr Wayne Craig - [email protected]

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

From: [email protected]

Dear Au pair,

How are you today, Hope you are having a great day?

Glad hearing from you because i really appreciate your response.

As i have told you previously my name is Dr Wayne Craig and the
name of my wife is Florence along side with my lovely Son Val who is
2 years old.

I enjoy Sports but always busy with work and i am very hard working
person, mean while my son likes visiting the park, playing with his
car toys, also a car will be made available for you if you are willing
to drive or learn how to drive, i promise you as your host that you
stay comfortably with my family because we are a Christian family.

There is a nice English Class around our area, also there other Au
pairs living around our area you will have the time to attend to an
English Lesson and the cost will be taken care by my family if you are
willing.

Our family is a fun loving family and during the weekends we all
together visits the beach for the sake of catching fun it has become a
part of us we are indeed a lovely family who will love you to come and
Join us as soon as you deem fit to come, i promise you that it is
going to be a memorable and wonderful time for the family we have
longed for the moment when a lovely Au pair will come and join us.

I would like to receive your CV for perusal and show it to my wife for
approval;(If you dont have any CV then you can send us your name in
full and your current residential address and past Job experiances if
you have any ) do you have any Reference you can send to us?

We would also like to receive any of your recent pics so we can know what
you look like,and we would like to have your contact number so we can
call you to know you better

I want to make everything move in a normal way without any problem
because this is our first experience of hosting an Au pair. Val Is our
only child so i wouldn't want anything that will hurt him and i have
promise to be a good dad to him so that he will grow happily, please
all we want from you is to take good care of Val , take him as your
little brother, your friend, play with him and teach him some good
cultural exchange.He is a very smart kid and easily learn from people

We have a large house house so your accommodation will be a live in
apartment, 2 bed room flat with internet access, TV set, Telephone and
some other good things that will make you feel at home because as a
Doctor i know what is good for people both young and old.

Val goes to school from 10am to 4pm which means he stays 6 hours in
school so all you need to do is to take him to school when it is 10am
then come back and take care of your own needs and when it is 4pm you
will be required to go and pick him up(but you wouldnt be bothered
with this chores During summer as they would also be on holiday) also
with regards to your English course it last for just 2 hours.
Saturdays and Sundays will be your free day and your salary will be
390GBP per week i don't know if this will be OK for you but that is
what we can offer for now and we don't know how it goes because this
is our first experience therefore your pocket money will be given to
you every Friday for your upkeep, my Wife is a nice and Caring woman
so sometimes she might decide to add a little thing to you depending
how caring you are to her son because she cherish him so much.

I hope our communication and relationship would be a fruitful one.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Greetings from my Family.

Dr Wayne Craig

From: [email protected]
Subject: Happy with your Response

Hi

Thanks for your Response

We are happy to receive your mail indicating your interest to join our
family.Its fun for us because we are on the move to have another
member of our family.We are really satisfied with your anwers

This is a big development for our family as we would use this
opportunity to learn new culture and Tradition to add to our own and
the same time share our incredible culture with you

Your details has been forwarded to my Attorney who has promised to get
back to us as soon as possible
I would send you a copy of the invitation when it is ready and when it
might have been signed by me and my Attorney and us

The documents you need to work here would be prepared by my Attorney
so you dont need to worry about the documents until you receive
instructions from her

Attached are some of our recent pictures Hope you write us and tell us
how you feel about us

We are really enthusiastic about this development and hope to make a
good and happy family with you

Dr Craig

These are some of the stolen photographs sent by this scammer, who pretends that they are photos of his own family and dog.









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

From: [email protected]
Subject: Contract letter/Letter of Invitation

We have decided to employ your Services for my son Valentine

Attached to this mail is the contract letter which was Prepared by my
attorney and you expected to sign and submit the scanned copy of the
signed Agreement letter to my Attorney Barr Brenda Mcleish Via her email
[email protected]

ENTRY/OBTAINMENT OF COE

Our family would take care of the flight Ticket and other travel
documents.While you would be Involved in the procurement of the
Documents needed from you
(Henceforth any Process regarding the Documents needed for your travel
Must be as Directed from the office of the Host Attorney Barr Mcleish)
Her office would help you get a Certificate of Eligibilty and Also
Workers National Issuance Number
Her office would help the Both parties get the necessary Documents to
Employ(Host) and to Work(Aupair) here in the UK

She would give you Directives and how to Get the right documents to work here
You also inform her when you are free to resume duties so she can
effect the Booking of your flight and also work towards the date
Dont fail to tell her the country you would like to fly in from

Contact her with a scanned copy of the signed contract letter Via her
Email [email protected]

Thanks for your Anticipated Cooperation and hoping to be family with you soon

Dr Craig

Attached Contract and Invitation Letter.pdf:

Here is an email which pretends to recommend Dr Wayne Craig. However, this is also part of the scam. The scammer calling himself Dimitrios has a fake host family profile at FindAuPair, which is copied and pasted from a genuine family's profile at GreatAuPair.

From: "TSOLAKAKIS family" <[email protected]>

Dear I am Dimitrios ,We wish to inform you that we saw your profile and we decided to contact you for my friend Dr Wayne Craig He lives in the Uk and i worked with him when i was in UK,I found an aupair from this site so we decided to help hime find one Contact Him Via his email [email protected] an inform him i reffered you to him They are God fearing family and i beleive you owuld make a good match with them His email is [email protected] Thanks Dimitrios

I received a email from dimitrios and other from dr wayne craig too. i want to know scam type, because I want to be au pair and I want to be cautios.

I was contacted by "Craig" on 14/ 07/12 ... after I declined an au pair job from Justine Adams, which seems to be part of a scam to. I started thinking something when wrong when he deceive my question to skype call .. I am so stupid for almost falling in it! but I definatly didn't fall for the 750GBP deposit ....
I have a question ... if they have my information (name, adress, nationality and birth) what they can do? I am afraid they could use my identity or make something else.

Hello eclipse23 and micael91, and welcome to ScamWarners.

eclipse23, it is useful to know the real information about becoming an au pair in any country which you hope to travel to, as this will help you identify the scammers. There is an overview of the most popular countries here:

http://www.aupair-world.net/index.php/au_pair_program/

Pay particular attention to any requirements you might need to fulfill, and also to how much pocket money you can expect to receive. Be very cautious about any family who suggests a different method of becoming an au pair, or offers you a lot more money than is usual for that country - this is typical of many scammers.

micael91, please don't worry about anything that you have sent to the scammer. Au pair scammers write to dozens of au pairs at the same time, and all of these au pairs will send the scammer their personal details, photos, and sometimes a passport scan as well. The scammer may make a note of a phone number, but he isn't interested in anything else, and usually doesn't even bother to look at anything he is sent. He only asks for these things in the hope that it makes him appear more believable.

An exception to the above, is if you have sent the scammer your bank account or credit card details - all scammers may use these details for theft, so you would need to contact your bank and/or credit card company immediately, and tell them what has happened.

But otherwise: au pair scammers' inboxes are full of au pairs' details, CVs/résumés, photos, and ID and passport scans. There is no reason that this scammer will pay any particular attention to anything that you have sent him. When you stop all contact with the scammer, he may persist in trying for a few days to persuade you to communicate with him; but if you totally ignore him, he will very quickly forget all about you, and he will focus instead on the many au pairs who are still writing to him and believing in him, and who he still hopes to steal money from.

And yes, Justine Adams is another scammer. You can read about this scam here:

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