Is it a scam?

I received an email offering me this au pair job in UK couple days ago. At first I considered this person as a scam but then his emails convinced me and I just dont know what to do. I'm Malaysian btw.

1st email
Dear Au pair,

We are lovely family living in London and we are very much in need of
aupair who can take care of my kids, make sure that they are
comfortable while I’m out for our daily bread, if you are interested
to be my aupair, forward your resume and maybe picture so that my kid
and I can see how and what you look like,
My aupairfamily account number is 530

Thank you and I wait forward to hear from you,

Mr. Wilson

2nd email
I’m so glad to hear from you, I must thank you for your interest to
work for my family, I appreciated your wide span of
experience. I must recommend you very well and I find you from aupair
family where I’m a member who wants an aupair

I would love to tell you more about my family, your work, your
accommodation and salary. We are lovely family of three (3). I’m a
medical Practitioner. My Son Scott is 6years and my daughter Nichole is
3yrs. they are both hyper active and fun to be with.

Your duty is to take good care of Scott and Nichole for approximately
30hrs to 35hrs a week. They are all i got now and i want the best for
them. You will help them do their work, assist them observe their
siesta, feed them, take them to school or for shopping if needs arise.
You will have weekends free and be entitled to all holidays and we
will pay you 100GBP (British pounds) per week for your up-keeps and
1000GBP at the end of the month making it a sum total amount of
1,400GBP Monthly. You will have your own bedroom self content. We need
you to stay until for a minimum period of 2months to a year or more if
you care.

I would love to know more about you before we can confide to employ
you to work for my family, as you know that Au pair Job is a very
delicate job here. I would also love to confirm your interest and
capability to take up this offer because I really want the best for my
kids.
Meanwhile, I would like you to tell me why you choose to work as an Au pair?

Do you really wish to work in London?

How eligible are you to live and work in UK as required by UK Border Agency?

What do you do at your leisure?

Have you been to UK before?

What makes you think that you are qualified and capable to take good
care of kids?

In terms of your application process, who will take care of your expenses?

Do you live with your family?

Can you drive?

Do you have a valid passport or ID card?

Are you physically fit for the Job? Do you have first aid training?

Are you sure that you are qualified to meet up with the requirements
that would be needed by the UK Home Office to grant the approval of
your application so as not to cause a delay or disappointment after a
long run with us and the process?

I hope everything is very clear. I really want to be sure that I
employ the right Au pair for my kids and I will wait to hear from you
if there’s any further question you need to know about my family

Thank you for your time.

Mr. Wilson

3rd email
I’m so delighted to hear from you and your answers are okay anyway,
pets are good, you are interrogating me actually, my private life is
not meant to discuss with you but I will answer all you want to know,
I do smoke sometimes outdoors and I’m not good with social networking,
I have facebook which I have deactivated because of my kids mum, who’s
an ex wife, I think you understand what I mean but if you have any
social network in mind and you think you wanted to talk, I could try
to adjust my schedule and register whichever one, having less time to
myself and it pains me to stay too far from my kids, its okay, skype,
messenger, gtalk right all those networking I guess that’s what you
mean, I don’t have a particular time I think, I’m not a racist and
your religion is not a problem to me and my family provided its not
gonna cause deviation from your simple duties, it’s the responsibility
of your employer to pay for your flight ticket once you are been
approved by Uk home office,

Meanwhile I have to consult an immigration attorney in charge of Au
pair placement here in UK during lunch to know the necessary steps to
take, in other to secure placement for you, so that we will start
processing the necessary papers and documents so as to have you fly
down once everything is completed

I will get back to you ASAP but keep me reminded

Warm regard to you and your family.

Mr.Wilson

4th email
I hope you are great’ I want you to know that we really need an aupair
to work for my family and I don’t want to while away this time I’m
using to secure placement for you,
I consulted the immigration barrister from UK Home office as we
discussed about securing an aupair placement legally for you here in
London,

According to the barrister in charge of an Au pair placement here in
UK, he told me that you must have A valid ID card, passport
photograph, and the proof of sufficient fund/ BTA that shows how
eligible and capable you are, to live and work in UK and they are the
most important requirements
All this requirements must be verified and approved, before you can
get an approval from home office through border agency to enter UK to
issue me an invitation letter on your behalf.

Meanwhile I want to know if you are eligible to provide all the
necessary requirements, so
that I will ask the barrister to proceed with the preparation of the
contract letter so that by tomorrow I can get it and signed, then
forward it to you.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Warmest Regard

Mr. Wilson

5th email
your visa will be granted once you have approval from UK home office,
they will write to UK consulate in your country to grant you all
necessary documents and papers you will need in other to fly down to
UK, and once your papers are complete and you were verified and have
your employment application approved by UK home office which i'm
running after to secure placement for you, you will definitely have a
work permit once you are here in London because you passed the
verification and your employer will be there to back you up with the
help of the attorney that processed you form,

i got a call from the barrister that our contract agreement letter and
your aupair application form is ready and i will have it in the next
an hour, so i will go through it and sign then forward it to you.

proof of sufficient fund/BTA (basic travel allowance) is a proof that
you are capable and eligible to live in UK, to be able to get yourself
stuffs before your first monthly earn, i hope you understand very well
what i mean,

Nobody can be allowed to enter UK without having proof that he/she
have a particular amount of money in his/her account and that he/she
is comfortable and eligible not to be involve with public fund crime
due to financial incapability.

kind regard

Mr.Wilson
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What should I do?

Welcome to Scamwarners springdniven.

I regret to inform you that the person who is offering you this job is a scammer without any doubt.

Rules regarding working in the UK are very clear and unless you are an EU citizen you won't be able to work as an au pair here. Scammers know this and try to take advantage of people by making them believe that by paying them money they can offer them a job - they can't.

The only place you can obtain a visa to work n the UK is by contacting the UK Embassy, or their agent, in your own country but, as I have already said, you can't get one for this type of work. The scammer will mention attorneys and all sorts of imaginary officials and he will end up asking you to pay him money.

The paperwork to arrange a visa ia handled in your home country by face to face interview and any fees are payable then, and not by Western Union. His style of writing suggests that he is a scammer of West African origin and not a doctor in the UK.

Hello my dear I want to know if this it's a scam khaledrajanfamily have send me an email that they are from UAE and his wife is sick in cancer and he need a private nurse I worked as a registered nurse/ private nurse first they send me the contra how I want to live and where and they put there home address,telephone,email ... And I have fill up the UK BORDER AGENCY application, then they send to me a visa and a work permit after a week I pay for the health insurance, certificate eligibility, metropolitan police all of these I take a certification in it and the amount for all these papers 9,740 GBP when the uk border agency sending me an email they put the brand name for the UK AGENCY they tell me to pay a money to take the certification also the UK ANTI TERRORISM have told me that all my paper the government recognizing in it and I'm still connecting with the uk border agency the email they are sending it for me is: [email protected] can you tell me if that it's a scam

I'm sorry to have to tell you that it is a scam.

The email address for the "home office" is a free email address, just like a yahoo or a gmail address. It has no connection to the real UK Home Office. It was opened by the criminals to make their scams more believable to the victims. The real UK Home office has addresses ending in .gov.uk and nothing else.

If you were really offered a job in UK, you would follow the process here to apply for a visa: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas ... n/working/
NOBODY would email you a visa application form. The fees that you were instructed to pay have also been made up by the scammers.