Please urgent help

I am looking for a job as an au pair,but are so many scams around here,and I do not know if I have a genuine or a scam.So please help me...
Do you know anything about Mxxxxx xxxxx? Or about Queensy Drenfeng?
Please help me?Are they scamers?

Scammers change names all the time, and sometimes they use names of real people too--so a name is not enough for us to help.

Please post the emails you received from these people, and we can help you. If they do not appear to be scammers, we will remove their information to protect them.

This is one of them


Hello,


How are you today, hope you are doing real good?

We are so excited that the Aupair4you.eu administrative/registration unit has
definitely recommended both of you as our intending Au pair couple and we fully
appreciate their recommendation which was why we consulted them to
help us get the most competent Au pair. Because of confidentiality
we decided to terminate our profile knowing full well that they will
get us the best Au pair who is loving and caring with a good heart
as we requested of them.

INTRODUCTION:
My name is Mrs. Queensy and the name of my Husband is Mr. Drenfeng
along side with our lovely Son Vans who is 2 years old. My Husband
enjoys Sports but he is always busy in the office and he is a very
hard working person, mean while my Vans 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 mother that you will stay comfortably with my family because
we are a Christian family.

We live in a city at (94 Kimpton Rd, London SE5 7EA, UK), There is a
nice English Class around our area, also there are 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 with our extended families 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 husband
for approval; do you have any Reference or letter of recommendation
you can send to us?

I want to make everything move in a normal way without any problem
because this is our first experience of hosting an Au pair. Vans is my
only Son so i wouldn't want anything that will hot him and i have
promise to be a good mum to him so that he will grow happily, please
all we want from you is to take good care of Vans, take him like your
brother, your friend, play with him and teach him some good cultural
exchange.

We have a large 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
mother i know what is good for people both young and old.

Vans 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 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 250GBP per week i don't know if
this will be OK for you but that is what we can offer both of you for now and we
don't know how it goes because this is our first experience therefore
your pocket money will be giving to you every Friday for your upkeep,
my husband is a nice and reputable man so sometimes he might decide to
add a little thing to you depending how caring you are to his Son
because he cherished Vans so much.

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

Hope to hear from you soon.
Greetings from my Family.

Mrs. Queensy Drenfeng

And this is the other for Mxxxxx xxxxx



Gumtree Mail

TO:


Message flagged
Friday, July 27, 2012 5:01 PM
Hi
Great to hear from you - it would be fantastic if you were able to send me your cvs. I thought I should tell you a little bit about us. We live in a lovely house with beautiful views just outside a pretty market town called xxxxx. We have 2 gorgeous girls aged 5 and 3 who are brilliant fun and hugely enjoyable to look after. We also have a little dog called xxxx. My husband and I also work from home - our company is xxxxxx - so you can look it up and see what you think!! Very briefly we are looking for a couple to come and help with the house and garden, plus help a bit with the children - picking up from school occassionally and some mealtimes etc - playing with them and having a happy time - plus also when they are at school helping a little with the business. Both the girls will be at school next term - so a couple of mornings work with the business might be brilliant for xxxxx. We hope that this would be fun and rewarding work - and also great work experience rather than just the 'au pair' role! I hope that we are a very loving family. We have always have au pairs (mainly from the Czech Republic!) and have always had great relationships. We need quite a bit of flexiblity and days are often different - however there would be ample time for xxxxx to have jobs for other families - there is plenty of work demand for handymen/gardeners etc etc!
We are looking for whoever gets the job to start as quickly as possible - and so would love to hear your thoughts.
Best Wishes
Mxxxxx

"Mrs Queensy" is a definite scam.

You can see many parts of "her" script are also used here: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=45724

The English tells me the author is African, not British.

I will look at the second one shortly.

The scammer pretending to be called Queensy Drenfeng is using the email address: [email protected]

Regarding the second email, this shows no typical signs of being a scam. There is a real person with that name living in the area where she says she lives. Her website is genuine too.

Sometimes, however, scammers copy genuine family's introductory emails, and their names, so it is still wise to be cautious until you have received another one or two emails from the family, and a telephone number as well. You can compare the telephone number you are given with the two telephone numbers (landline and mobile) which are on the lady's website.

And, of course, never send or transfer any money, for any reason, on the instruction of a host family, or anyone who they put you in contact with.

You may also like to compare what is offered with the descriptions of being an au pair in the UK which you can find here:

http://www.bapaa.org.uk/displaypage.asp?page=31

and here:

http://www.aupair-world.net/index.php/a ... uk/au_pair

You were correct to post this family's whole email, as this enables us to research it. But, as Dotti mentioned above, as this does not show typical signs of being a scam, I will now remove the family's details, to protect their privacy.