[email protected] - is it a scam?

that's what he wrote:

"Hello XXX,

My name is Mr Harvey Finley, i am 45 years old. I live and work in London, United Kingdom as an Engineer geologist. I am a single parent, i lost my wife to a fatal car accident about 2 years ago. I hate to talk about this... My job requires travelling that is why i want to hire a nanny for my daughter, her name is Laura and she is 5 years old.

I want you to work for me for a minimum of one year but you can choose to extend your stay when you get here. And i will like you to resume for the job on the 22nd of next month (September). Are you comfortable with that?

I need someone to take care of Laura, feed her, take her to school and back. I want you to take her to see things for picnics, be a friend, helper and have a good heart in treating her lovely and nice.
Do you know how to drive a car? Because you will have access to one of my cars which you will use in driving Laura to school and other places for fun.
The nanny position is live-in and you shall have a private accommodation with furnished sitting room and bedroom and also a private bathroom. A Fixed land phone and an internet ready computer. You will be working from Mondays to Fridays so you will have Saturdays and Sundays as your off days.

I will be paying you 600 Pounds monthly and an extra 150 Pounds every two weeks as your pocket money so that makes a total of 900 Pounds per month. Let me know if you are ok with that.

Please tell me about yourself and send me some pictures of you.
Regards

Mr. H. Finley Family"

that's probably a scam the offer is just too good to be true, but maybe I'm wrong?

Did you speak with them on skype? Did you receive any further information about this job?
The english is a bit strange, the same like was with me!and the high salary...

It is a scam.

Besides the pay which is way out of range, the English tells me the author is African.

yes, there;s that, and the way he introduces himself. Its pretty odd to use Mr or Ms before the actual name.

can you tell me where he writes from? email headers pasted below:

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He appears to be hiding his location behind a proxy server.

yup he's most certainly a scammer. touch.
he asked (almost demanded) me to contact a travel agency to arrange a bargain flight. when asked to provide usual agency details i.e. name, address, phone number and name of the agent, he just kept telling me to do what he instructed me to do.
the emails of the said agency is: [email protected]. I even did some research and seems like there's no such travel agency in london.
he ocasionally checks up scamsavers website too because he demands me to take the topic down
yeah, I'm guite disappointed because now i see that when the offer looks good it usually is not genuine

Unfortunately scammers don't understand the difference between being an au pair and a nanny. An au pair isn't a job but a nanny is, and they fall under different rules as regards visa requirements. If you need a visa to come to the UK it's unlikely you'll get one to to come as an au pair, whereas it's virtually impossible you'd get one to work as a nanny. You'd only get a visa if you had already been working as a nanny for the family abroad.

As long as you don't know the rules you are going to be faced with lots of offers from scammers and you will have difficulty spotting which ones are scams. To be honest most of them are scams, simply because it's so difficult to get a visa, but a lot of people still want to come. That makes it very tempting for scammers to pretend it's easy and steal people's money.

haha no, I don't need a visa nor any other work permit, still I get loads of scam offers.

You're fortunate uroboros and you may be able to reduce the scam offers if you mention that you don't require a visa in your posts on sites looking for a job. There are lots of scammers on the internet and they try to scam UK people looking for work in the UK too. They don't just pick on foreign people. They'll steal money from anyone. The just use different lies.