Rupert Hardy- scam or not? [email protected]

Recently I got another email and I guess it's a scam because of "dear au pair" and numer at the beginning 4470 but I'm not sure. Anyway here it comes:

Dear Au pair,

I am Mr. Rupert Hardy from the UK, I live at 56 Bayley
St, London, Greater London WC1B 3HD with my family and I work as a
financial broker. We need the services of an Au pair to help us take
good care and to look after our child here in London. My spouse Mrs.
Juliet Hardy works as a Medical practitioner and we do not spend as
much time as we should with our son Tom due to the nature of our jobs.

We need your services as soon as possible and please endeavor to send
us your resume. We would like to know more about you, also send us
some pictures of yourself, and please feel free to ask me any question
regarding whatever you want to know about my family.

We checked out easyaupair.com and got interested in your profile.
You can add me on Skype: mrrupert.hardy or you can call me on
+447031994470

We hope to hear from you soon and we pray and hope that you will
accept our offer of employment to work as an Au pair in our family.

Mr. Rupert Hardy

Welcome here patita6.

Yes, this is a scam! As you suspected the +4470 phone number is a re-direct number that will connect you to the scammer's phone wherever he is in the world.

I am a Brit working in Romania. A friend of mine recently asked for some help in completing an application for the Home Office for her daughter, sent to her by Mr Rupert Hardy. The young lady was excited about being offered a position as an au pair by Mr Hardy to work in London. I started to read the documents she had been asked to complete and a few alarm bells started to ring in my head. Whilst the English was reasonably good it did not appear to have been written by a native English speaker. I looked at the photos, which were sent to the young lady purportedly showing the Hardy family and their young child - a nice looking family with a blonde wife and an all white family. They also did not ring true, as the house one of the photos was taken outside was definately an American house and not a British sytle house. What really sold it to me was the request to send money via Western Union, which no legitimate application made at the UK Home Office would ever request. I checked the Home Office website and the website that the documents Mr Hardy hads asked to be submitted to was not an official Home Ofice website, but something containing words like ukhomeoffice.gsi.gov .... etc to make it appear as if it was legitimate and to a person in a foreign country would appear to be ok, but in fact is not. I decided to call Mr Hardy from Romania to ask him a few questions. The moment he answered it was obvious that he was African, I have worked in Africa and know. I asked him lots of questions about the application and the need to send money first and he claimed this was a Home Office requirement, when I told him that this was not what the Home Office website stated he told me I did not understand the process. He was a little scared at one time as he thought I might have worked for the Home Office. He hung up the phone on me twice, but not before I explained to him that I knew he was a scammer and would pass his details (phone number etc) to friends in the Metropolitan Police. PLease do not have anything to do with this person as it is a complete scam.