Sarah Martin - [email protected]

Hi ALL!

My GF almost(!) eated the same sh*t, She have got a mail on some au pair website where She is registered - I do not know which one, morning I will ask Her
Here is the 2nd mail from SARAH MARTIN - but the contents of the mail is almost same:

From: "Sarah Martin" <[email protected]>
Date: 2012.09.23. 23:31
Subject: Re: au-pair work
To:

I am really happy that you replied me and interested in working for our family, I hope you'll enjoy working for our family. Here is a little about us:

THE FAMILY
We are a family of 4 with 2 boys, joey will be 4 by September and Josh is 6, our family now have a busier schedule, I started working full time as a financial controller 8.00am to 5.30pm,my husbands run his
own pipe-lining business which is based on Civil Engineering (so we're not always available at home), we are looking for some assistance with the kids and around the house. Hopefully you can add another language
for them to learn and experience a different culture. Our friends, who live minutes away, have an Au pair from Spain and it's working really well for them.

We live on 571 Academy St, New York NY, which am sure you know is a big city. I am down to Earth, blunt and take things the way they come.
I am a very friendly person and easy to get along with. You will have no problem in adapting to our lifestyle here. We will need your services due to the time commitment that is demanding by our job. We want you to know that you'll never have any cause to regret taking up this job. If you smoke and you want to smoke it's most no be in my home cause we don't smoke in the house and definitely not in front of the kids, I must say here that were Christian family and we are devoted to our Religion.

THE KIDS
Joey and Josh are 2 wonderful kids,they mean the world to us,they are funny playful an intelligent kids,we enrolled them at the same school and they do both of their stuffs together.I don't think you'll have any problems with them so far they eat and play well. Very intelligent and fun to be with, they both love candy, chocolate enjoys watching cartoon and maybe play with the kids next door.You’ll enjoy staying with them.they often go bike riding and they also go for swimming classes.

SALARY
You will be entitled to a pay of $1250 every month while you will also be given an entitlement of $80 every week for petty expenses which you might need for yourself. This salary is subject to negotiations for an
upward review upon your arrival.

SCHEDULE
We would appreciate help getting the kids ready for school and walking them to the school bus pick up point(2mins), getting their meal ready, preparing them for their tutor and sitting down to go through little
school activities that are not too tasking, taking them out on their bike or to the park which requires crossing the road. Also helping me with meals and on special occasions we can allow you give us a treat of some of your meals over there.
There is a good bus service and train network however we are looking at providing a small car. This would give you more freedom and allow you to have trips with them. We love occasional nights out and can agree on evenings and schedule when required.

ROOM
A well furnished bedroom will be made available for your personal use soon as you get here. You will also be provided with a personal computer connected to the internet so you can keep in contact with relatives, TV and other necessary things at your disposal. There will be enough privacy for you; I guess you'll really like it.

You are free to start as soon as possible, I will appreciate you coming immediately but any date of your choice will also be welcomed.

You have every weekend as your off days as my husband will not be going to work during weekends except special overtime(which you'll be compensated for) you might take the weekend out visiting places around
time and maybe getting along with other Au pairs around.

STUDY
You will be free to study in any school of your choice soon as you get here that's if you still want to. I will be helping you as regards tuition fees and there are so many colleges and Universities here that
offer good and qualitative courses. We’ll be willing to help you with that.

Let me know if you are ready to take up this position and probably get some more pictures from you?

I will love to know how long you want to stay with us and if the salary is good by you?

Do you have a valid passport and other necessary document needed for Visa Application?

Thanks

After this She answered to Her and the reply was really fast:

From: "Sarah Martin" <[email protected]>
Date: 2012.09.27. 0:47
Subject: Re: au-pair work
To:

Hi ,

So glad to read from you and am happy to know you're interested in been part of our family and I want us to start preparation as soon as possible because my kids love everything I told them about you

Concerning the Visa, flight and other traveling documents, I believe its best we get them through an agency because of our past experience from our neighbor: so it will be perfect to apply through them, they helped our neighbor with their last Au pair and it was very great and also feel very secure patronizing them. We want to make sure that you have a valid visa so that when you get to the US Embassy there wont be any hitch whatsoever.Our friends had their first Au pair In the year 2009 from Croatia that processed an invalid visa and was later caught some few weeks after staying with them which cost them so many Court cases, please in that case I hope you are okay with this security measure.

Also concerning your Visa processing and all traveling expenses, I believe you know that our family must also pay some amount of money too, that means you will also be paying your own part of the total traveling expenses which is affordable, but right now I cannot give you the current cost breakdown and processing details except you make contact.I want us to make progress without any delay so that you can join us soonest.

As regards the Visa, flight and other traveling documents you will have to contact Mr. Mike Davis (The International Relation Officer) of the Au Pair America Agency on this email: [email protected] for all details of the processing of your Visa, Work Permit, Insurance and other traveling documents including the Total Cost,please tell him "Your name, Your Full contact address and your personal cell phone number with international dialing code, your country and how long you intend staying with us and when you will wanna start and that you have found your American Host family (Martin Family living on 571 Academy St, New York NY, USA)

Then Please kindly get back to me with whatever they tell you so that we can discuss better about the payment. I will be expecting your reply soonest. Make sure you contact them as soon as possible as we can't wait to have you here with us. I attached a picture of a room provided for you, I hope you like it

I care with love,

Sarah

After this I started a small investigation - google can helps to everyone! - because the offered mail address of that Agency is .... Ehh, my english is not good enough for explain it: I HAVE SAME MAIL PROVIDER/ADDRESS on usa.com (powered by http://www.mail.com ).

Sarah Martin's FB Profile with 2 Friends is also ... suspicious (? this is the good word for it?), and the profile was made in May, 2012: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... ********** (I read a warn above, if you need I will tell in PM.)

I also wrote a letter to that host family to ask it:
"Is that Au Pair Agency Designated by the U.S. Government?" - but not sent yet. And never be!

Admin, if You want You can create a new Topic for SARAH MARTIN because this name is a new version of a scammer - I think.

BTW it is a good job! Thanks for it! (But I found the answers by myself. )

EDIT: I thinking about that I will write a mail to Mr. Mike Davis to know they further steps too.
Mod edit: edited out personal details.DJ

is a scam! sarah martin sent the same email to me and I have verified by an agency that is a scam.

[email protected] I just go a similar email from him

I got the same messages from a family called Nelson Helen

So, thank you for posting about it, otherwise I would have lost a lot of money

"Mike Davis" seems to have a new email account, too: [email protected]