Is it a scam?

Hello, this email can be a scam?

Dear Aupair

We Appriciate your concerns for taking your precious time to read about my family. My name is Lisa Finlay 38 years old & My husband Paul Finlay 40 years old , We are Happily married couples blessed with 3 chldren, John is 3 years old, Emmanuela is 6 years old while Debby will soon be 1 year old. My husband work as a Midwifery at St George’s Hospital London While I works as an Accountant at Vigin media telecoms here in London. Our Daughter Emmanuela is polite, funny and social who loves to look after and share with her younger onces, the kids are happy and smiley children who loves to interact with others. We live in a 4 bed room flat at South Kensington London central. We have a large sitting room as well as an indoor play room, and we have lots of toys and games for the children for both indoor and outdoor activities. We are searching for an optimistic, energetic, and loving Aupair who can help with the daily routine of raising our 3 gorgeous children. I was once an Aupair when i was a youth and have found memories of sharing our home and family with people looking for new international experience. My husband and I have not had an au pair before but there are a lot of au pairs in this area and we are sure you would enjoy the time spent with us. We are looking for an Aupair that is willing to start as soon as possible. depending how long you are willing to stay. We will provide you with a room and your own Personal toilet and bathroom. I will pay you 550 pounds monthly and a pocket money of 90 pounds weekly so as to enable you study any course that will add more values to your life during your stay in my famly.

Your daily duties involves getting them up and dressed for school, dropping them off in the morning, and also picking them after school. Your working hours is 6 hours daily weekdays, while you have Saturdays and Sundays as your free days. Your duties involves taking care of them while at home and also dinner preparation, homework and getting them ready for bed at the end the day! We eat healthy, lead active, fun lives and need someone who has a positive outlook on life. We need help with organizing and keeping the children's clothes, room and equipment in order.Aupair Must have a passion for children and earnestly want them to be your first priority. Homework and school projects are important and must be able to assist in this area also. Their school is within walking distance and on the same street as our house. Light housekeeping, laundry and grocery shopping during the day is also required. Other facilities within walking distance include a couple of playgrounds and a recreation center with indoor/outdoor swimming pools, tennis and basketball courts, and a gymnasium. There is a college nearby that offers all kind of Eglish classes, ranging from Language courses to Sports, and everything in between. There are other school and facilities located nearby also.

We hope to hear from you and also willing to accept you in our home as member of our family. I on behalf of my Husband and my wonderful children wish you the best in your present endeavors over there in your country and we are also waiting to embrace you with the warmth, love and most importantly the peace that your heart always desires.

Regards

Lisa Finlay

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I am the personal assistant to L. F. she asked me to get this message to you. When replying kindly reply to her personal email. ([email protected]) skype: lisa.finlay9

Thank you very much

The writing shows traces of West African, and the pay doesn't sound right.

Total scam.

In addition to the African English (and there is plenty of that) and the pay that is too high, these are supposed to be educated people, yet "she" can't even spell the name of their own employer or of her husband's job?

I've seen parts of this script before as well.

Well this is definetely a scam. Please be aware.

Good day.

She added me to her favorate's list. Just want to know, if it is a scam then why is she willing to skype?

Hi LG.
RE: if it is a scam then why is she willing to skype?
Because the scammer could easily use a female on the Skype instead. That way the trickster stays in the background, and you may think you're in communication with a woman. Your best course of action is to ignore and don't answer the caller. And if you wish, send a report of the suspect contact to Skype. Include a copy of the exact message you received. By reporting them to Skype, they will become aware of the questionable activities of those users and they will take the appropriate action.
Hope that is of help to you.

Because HE is intending to steal money from you.

I hadn't realised this myself, but it's true of many Western countries that working parents can receive large government subsidies to support their children going to day care centres and they don't apply if you employ an au pair. The day care centres are very sophisticated and closely regulated and often incorporate learning facilities in preparation for school.

Having established that a family seeking to employ an au pair would have to be wealthy and sophisticated, which this person clearly isn't, they would have to establish at the outset whether you are entitled to work in the UK, which is most unlikely if you are not an EU passport holder.

This person has only one aim and purpose, and that's to scam you. If he were serious he'd discuss the visa first, but he wants to give you the job and then make you pay him for a visa he can't get you. He's dealing with things in the wrong order.

Welcome littlegirl15,

UK has very tight restrictions on foreign workers. In order to be eligible for an au pair job, you must be a citizen of an EAA country (in which case you do not need a visa) or you need a Tier 5 visa, in which case you MUST be from one of the countries listed on this page.



Note that your country is not on either list. So it doesn't matter if someone adds you as a favorite on skype, because you cannot get a visa to work as an au pair in UK. Any real family in UK hiring an au pair would know this.

She added me to her favorate's list too...

No questions, same first email... She didn't ask me for an advance payment, only to book a flight and tell her the date i'm going to London.

I replied to the first email and that's her reply:
"I am so Glad to hear back from you. Below is a detailed mail about your duties and various issues that you may need clarification about. I will like you to start as soon as possible.

Welcome as our new nanny

We have to work together with you to ensure that you are happy with the duties you are carrying out, and that you are comfortable using and enjoying the facilities our home provides. If ever you are in doubt, please ask! You will find that we are reasonably well organized and try to keep things tidy as we go.

Household Duties

Tidying Our kid's playroom and bedroom as required and Assist in loading and emptying the dish washer as required “ we will show you the best way to load it, and which items should be hand washed
Empty the kitchen bin when you notice it is full, and replace the bin liner.

In your free time, evenings, and weekends you are welcome to eat with us. If you will not be joining us, please let us know in order that we do not prepare and then waste additional food
Please observe the instructions we have given you regarding closing and locking doors and windows, and setting the alarm if you are leaving the premises. Please let us know if you are going out in order that we know to set the alarm if the house will be empty. We will let you know of our where abouts at all times.

Telephone

You may telephone home twice a week for 10 minutes. Please use the access code we gave you and let us know when you wish to use the telephone. We will provide you with a SIM card for your mobile an amount of credit. Please keep this phone with you when you are out in case we need to get in touch with you urgently. The local shop provides top-ups when needed.

Salary

I'm paying you a monthly salary of 550 pound and a pocket money of 90 pounds every friday.


Free Time

During your free time we will expect that you are self sufficient, although you are very welcome to join us for meals and in the evenings. We hope that you will join us regularly.
We have provided you with some information about the local area, and are happy to help you find out more about anything you are interested in knowing. When we go out you are free to come with us, and we will try to make time at weekends so that we can all go out together as a family and allow you to experience some of our country. If you do join us on a trip out we will expect a little help with Our kids and will not expect you to ignore them just because you are not technically on duty. When you come with us you will be our guest and we will treat you to any meals or entry fees that are incurred as a part of our day together.

Conclusion

It is very important to us that you are happy during your stay here. We recommend that each Friday you sit down with us and discuss the coming week's events and timetable. This time will also allow for you to ask questions about anything with which you are unclear or unhappy, and we can also voice any concerns we may have and find a solution.


I wait your Quick Response.

Regards

Lisa Finlay"

The payment is super-sized! First alarm i heard...
In the skype chat she answer me only with "ok" "oh ok" words. Not a London-style i suppose! Second alarm.....
I searched on google the email adress [email protected] (an aristocratic one) and i found this forum with the same email! Third alarm....
In the site she found me, she was saying that her husband is a Mycrobiologist, in the first mail she turned him into a Midwife and in a skype chat she said that he's a male nurse. (and in the site i told before, her profile has been deleted)
I don't know in Englad how it works, but here in Italy a microbiologist can't work in a midwifery unit... It's useless!! And a mycrobiologist is a medic, not a nurse (Italy... England, i don't know)
Thank goodness that i'm a nursing student... Scam i supose! Fourth alarm... I need to call firefighters!

I just want to understand one thing... How she or he can steal money from me in this way?! I only can loose them with a useless flight-ticket...

I am tempted to give "her" a false date... I have time until next weekend!

What can i do now? I've already reported this case to the site' admins...

Scammers only think they're clever abecchio. Often they're very stupid and just follow what other scammers do in the hope they earn 'free' money. They are very much like insects, but more unpleasant. They copy each other if they think it will get them money and they do believe they are entitled to be paid for their lies.

Being Italian you don't need a visa to work in the UK but that won't stop a scammer trying to make you pay for one and, if you've bought an airline ticket, he knows he can make any demand he likes, even if it's stupid. he'll keep pushing you to buy an airline ticket because he knows that will enable him to blackmail you. Tell him you'll travel by car.

He has only one interest and that's to get you to pay him money.

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Empty the kitchen bin when you notice it is full, and replace the bin liner.

.... is hilarious but the scammer is an idiot. It's surprising he doesn't tell you how to walk up stairs.

A man can become a midwife but it has nothing to do with microbiology. One is a nursing job and the other a scientific one.

...i hate this type of morons!
Ok, i'm going to tell him that i wish to travel by car

And that i have a lot of friends and relatives engaged on mafia activities? (i like those kind of stereotypes, pizza+mandolino+mom+pasta)

...or i can tell the truth, that i have found another one family in Austria and i'm going there for months to work as an au pair!

By the way... Thanks a lot TerranceBoyce for your advices

Clearly you are a sensible and intelligent young lady abecchio and I wish you the best of luck in your new work. The fact that you can look after yourself shows you will be an asset to the family you join.

Don't bother with the scammer. He isn't worth your attention or time.