Au Pair Scam Mary Kellyss

My friend was contacted via aupairworld and Facebook by a Host Family called Mary Kellyss - [email protected] - she was offered an au pair job in the USA and the family sent emails and photos of the family. She was then contacted by Ann Charles and Mike Davis from an au pair agency who sent her application forms and documents to complete - they used this email address for their agency - [email protected]. They wanted her to wire or transfer money to them using Western Union or Money Gram. She contacted a real au pair agency to check this and they told her that no au pair agency ever asks for money to be wired or transferred and this was a scam - I wanted to report it on this site so no one falls for this scam.

I almost got scammed with the same method. Its really scary. Aside from that, that woman keeps on asking me if im interested or not even if i say im not interested she keeps on saying you will lost your opportunity blah blah blah.

Just don't resply, sure they will give up soon - my friend has reported them to Facebook and aupairworld - I wonder if there is anywhere else she should report them? Does anyone know?

My friend thinks she is being contacted by another scammer - maybe it's the same scam?? Anyone heard of this one?

Agency person is called Glenn Defrae - [email protected] and they want her to send money to Paul E Sims in Colorado. Told her she is matched with family called Chavez!!!

As they are asking her to send money I told her it's a scam.

I've been contacted by Valerie Chavez and the agency person's name and e-mail are the same (Glenn Defrae - [email protected]). I haven't answered because the amount of money offered by her seemed suspicious to me.

This is definitely another scam.

USA.com email addresses are free email addresses, just like gmail or yahoo addresses. They are not connected to any legitimate business or agency.

If a host family asks you to send money by Western Union or moneygram to anyone, it is a scam.

If you are looking for an au pair position in the US, it is very important that you familiarize yourself with the US government's rules regarding au pairs. In the US, you can ONLY become an au pair if you are sponsored by one of the agencies on this official list: http://j1visa.state.gov/participants/how-to-apply/sponsor-search/?program=Au%20Pair&state=any If a "family" claims they can hire you directly, or if they refer you to an agency that is not on this list (or if they refer you to an attorney) then they are fake. If they give you the name of an agency on this list, you need to follow the link FROM THE OFFICIAL LIST to the agency's website, then contact the agency THROUGH THEIR WEBSITE OR AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THE OFFICIAL LIST, and verify that they are indeed arranging a position for you. Otherwise, a scammer could just be using a real agency's name.

Thanks Dotti - will keep posting if I hear of any other weird scams!

Here is the email from the "agency":

In regards to this, you will have to contact Mrs.Ann Charlie (The International Relations Officer) of the America aupair Agency on this email:[email protected] for all details of the processing of your Visa, Work Permit,Medical Insurance, Flight Tickets and other traveling documents including the Total Cost,please tell her "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 (Kellyss Family with ID NY070288 living in 571 Academy St New York, USA),, ?ást emailu od host family

,,Au Pair in America
Au Pair America Management wishes to thank you for contacting us regarding the arrangement of your Traveling Documents to the United State of America. We promise to offer you the best which you will be glad you did. The Agency is a U.S. State Department-designated sponsor for an Au pair cultural exchange program. They bring to their program more than 25 years of experience in cultural exchange and hosting Au pairs, including those for our own children. Our experience in the travel industry has served our clients well over last several years. And we are fully ASTA and ATOL protected travel agent. which means your money is fully guaranteed.
ATOL – which is short for “Air Travel Organizers' Licensing” – exists to protect the public from losing money or being stranded abroad because of the failure of air travel firms. It was first introduced in 1972 and it gives comprehensive consumer protection to 28 million people in the UK and USA who buy flights or air holidays each year.

It was indicated in your E-mail that you have been told by one of our Host Families (Kellyss Family living on 571 Academy St #2C New York, USA) to contact us. We promise never to disappoint you as we have never disappointed in fulfilling our promises.
We would request that you strictly download, print, read through, fill carefully and send back to us via this email address scanned copy of the duly filled forms attached to this mail,
it contains all necessary information you need in regards to the Total cost and the documents requested from you to provide so that we can successfully process all your Travel document,Visa and Flight Ticket.

For the Cost and the Child Care Agreement Form for download, read and fill carefully the attached word document file titled-COST AND PAYMENT AUTHORIZATION FORM stated in this attached is the total cost of $1,650 as an Au pair .

For your Au Pair America Registration Form and list of required documents you will have to provide, download read carefully and Fill the attached Word Document file titled- Au Pair America APPLICATION FORM. We expect you to get back to us with the filled forms not more than a week from now , so that we can inform you on how to make payment.


Note : That we can not proceed with if we do not receive the scanned copies of the duly filled form,these forms enable us to register you with
Au Pair America Program as an Au Pair and it also provide all necessary information that we will require to process your Visa and other travel documents so once the payment is made with a detailed submission of all the duly filled forms then we can start processing of your Visa,Flight ticket and every other travel documents.



TERMS AND REGULATIONS


Au Pair America, Inc. work in full term and condition with all international Visa & Working Permit Agency ,for all travelers in Countries that are not in the same country with the agency of their choice or where the Agency of their choice don't have office in their country.

Which allow for the Following Terms and Regulations:

- All Document necessary Must be valid and certified by Migrations service of the country of the traveler

-The photo Page of the passport of all traveler must show the original personality in physical.

- Visa charges and work permit fees must be paid directly to the Consulate of the Country the traveler is going which is in affiliation with the Immigration Department of the country the traveler is traveling to.

- All Customers Processing Visa of the country of their choice with Agencies in the country of their choice must Send along with other necessary document the photo page of their Passport which will serve as evident of legibility at the Consulate of their country of their choice in their location.

- All Customers Processing Visa of the country of their choice with Agencies in the country of their choice must have a mailing address where all necessary document which include letter of invitation to the country of their choice by Consulate of the country, letter of invitation by their host family and Faxed papers for Visa charges payment will be mailed to.

- Which was recently added in the advent of cyber crimes disallow any form of payment with out cash therefore Bank check,Credit Cards,Money orders are not accepted for payment for any service.In keeping this regulations legible applicants who are not in the same location with the traveling agency of the choice will only make payment via the host family or via Money gram or bank transfer to our agency representative.

Thanks for contacting us,In anticipation of your response. "At Au Pair America we are interested in getting you to your destination in style and comfort."



Mrs.Ann Charlie (International Relations Officer)
For: Au Pair America, Inc,,

In regards to this, you will have to contact Mrs.Ann Charlie (The International Relations Officer) of the America aupair Agency on this email:[email protected] for all details of the processing of your Visa, Work Permit,Medical Insurance, Flight Tickets and other traveling documents including the Total Cost,please tell her "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 (Kellyss Family with ID NY070288 living in 571 Academy St New York, USA),, ?ást emailu od host family

Thankyou for posting the scammer SaraK.
The above script has been used in 2 previous scams. One from a scammer calling itself sarah martin from September Twenty 12 in a Au Pair type scam. I won't say too much publically but after a while they become easy to spot.

Update - these people contacted my friend AGAIN - they wanted her to wire over $1000 to the following person - Name: Wiley Manuel, Address: 10170 Wyndham Court, Suwanee Ga 30024 using Moneygram or Western Union - why don't these companies like Moneygram or Western Union stop people like this abusing their services...??? I don't understand???

Mod note: This post was made by the scammer in order to scam people further.
It has been left here in order to show the depravity of these thieves.


guyzzz she is not a scam

It's a common question SaraK and you could ask why gunmakers don't stop people killing victims, or knife makers stop people stabbing each other.

Scammers use and abuse many legitimate services, from ad sites, employment sites, banks and any other service they can abuse to make a profit. Some even found a way to abuse the telephone service for deaf people.

The service that Western Union and other payment service providers is both legitimate and useful, and they do take steps to inhibit scammers from taking advantage of their service, and the best way to defeat the scammer is for people to know how to use them properly. Western Union themselves make it clear that their service shouldn't be used to pay money to strangers, and they can't stop people who won't listen, which often happens.

Western Union have done well to cope with negative publicity, but if people followed their guidelines it wouldn't be a problem.

Welcome Kellyss!

Smart move--thinking you can actually get away with pretending you are real in a group of experienced fighters! The ridiculous use of icons really adds to your plausibility (not.)


Thank you for providing us with another one of your scamming email addresses!
[email protected] --- ANOTHER ADDRESS OWNED BY THIS NIGERIAN SCAMMER!!

Please feel free to come back and provide more details on your scams so we can continue to help people to avoid low-life criminals like you.

...and this scammer is abusive - look at this PM I just received:

Sent: Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:50 pm
From: kellyss mary
To: SaraK

hello, you are a fool....mary kellyss is not a scam... we are gonna sue you...

Bullshit

They then used the whipping emoticon about 30 times...

Yes, SaraK scammers are abusive low life criminals. They will lie and cheat to steal money instead of finding a legitimate job.

Do not worry about his threats. It is only a bluff. He is located in Nigeria. Your post has damaged his scam business. He has lost victims and trying to recover his losses.

Thank you so much for helping others.

Bryon