Mercy Scolt, SCAM

Au pair/Nanny job available
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Mercy Scolt <[email protected]>
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Au pair/Nanny job available
I am Mercy Scolt living in United State of America (7652 CartillA Ave, Califonia). I am looking for an aupair to take care of my only Daughter Jenny. Jenny is 5 years old, intelligent and Smart. I will like to know if you are available to work as aupair/nanny with my family. I am a Jounalist and i travel alot due to my preffession and that is why i always hire aupair to take care of my child while i am not around. Your duty is just to take care of Jenny and make her happy always, you will take her to school every morning and also pick her from school after school hour. I need someone that can start working immediately, so i will like to know if you are available to start working immediately. Hence, get back to me with your bio data including pictures and other relevant details about yourself if you are interested in the job and i will also send you more details about my family and the job as soon as i hear from you. Here is my email: [email protected]
I look forward to your soonest response.
Cheers


I am very much interested in you and i want you to be the next aupair for my child. I am living in United State of America and my name is Mercy Scolt, i am a Journalist and i am a very busy person as i work very hard to ensure a better life and feature for my only child. I have one child and her name is Jenny. Jenny is a shy girl and she likes sport, she is intelligent and funny and i am sure you will really enjoy your stay with her. I want you to start working as soon as possible cause i will be going for a contract soon and i can't leave Jenny all alone, that is why i want you to arrive in USA for the job as soon as possible. You will be treated as part of our family from the moment you arrive in United State and your duty is just taking sole charge of Jenny and making sure she is in a good state of health at all time, you will also take Jenny to school every morning and do some house cores when necessary. A well furnished room is available for you which has a Television, Computer with internet and Video. I am offering you $2500 USD monthly salary and $450 USD weekly pocket money and i will increase your salary with time if you impress me with your duty.
Henceforth, i want you to contact the company in charge of the processing of your travel and working documents. The name of the agency is Consultant Travel Company and they are based in United State, they also have a branch in United Kingdom and Russian Federation. The agency help my previous aupairs to process there travel and they are fast in the processing. The travel company contact details is as follows.
Company Name: Consultant Travel Company
Phone number (USA): +1(315) 629-8408
Phone numbers (UK): +447031884993
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Nevertheless, you are to contact the travel company immediately for inquiry regarding immediate processing of your travel and working papers and get back to me as soon as you hear from them. I look forward to your response as soon as you hear from the company. I attached my family pictures and i will like to see your pictures also.
Best Regards

Oh,yes... for me wrote she the same... 4 scams in 2 days,I hate people,they want money from poor au-pairs...

Yes, that's right. How can people be so cold and try abusing innocent girls.

This is what I found, when I researched...
Dear Consumer’s Voice
We got an email last week from a reader who had registered with an online au pair agency. Shortly afterwards she received an email from someone claiming to be a journalist in the USA who needed an au pair to take care of her daughter. The email went like this (I haven’t changed or corrected a single character):
“I am Mercy Scolt living in United State of America (7652 CartillA Ave, Califonia). I am looking for an aupair to take care of my only Daughter Jenny. Jenny is 4 years old, intelligent and Smart. I will like to know if you are available to work as aupair/nanny with my family. I am a Jounalist and i travel a lot due to my preffession and that is why i always hire aupair to take care of my child while i am not around. Your duty is just to take care of Jenny and make her happy always, you will take her to school every morning and also pick her from school after school hour. I need someone that can start working immediately, so i will like to know if you are available to start working immediately. Hence, get back to me with your bio data including pictures and other relevant details about yourself if you are interested in the job and i will also send you more details about my family and the job as soon as i hear from you. Here is my email: [email protected] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .”
Suspicious yet? Look at the clues. She claims to be a journalist but can’t spell certain key words (“United State of America”, “Jounalist”, “preffession” and “Califonia”)?If you do a little more research you can quite quickly establish that the address she gives in “Califonia” doesn’t exist. She also gave a phone number that doesn’t exist, her only means of communication seems to be her email address. Ask a Voice journalist if they can survive without working phones and they’ll just laugh at you.
Shortly afterwards she got another email, claiming to be from the agency she used to hire au pairs. Curiously for someone supposedly in the USA the agency had an email address in Turkey. Yet another clue.
Their email said:
“We have been informed by your host family regarding you travel arrangment and we are to get your papers ready soon as your host family informed us that you have to start working with her family soon. Hence, we require your maximum Co-operation to enable us complete your travel arrangement soon.”
They then requested a variety of personal details, copies of passports and school leaving certificates. And one final thing:
“Travel documents processing fee of $929”
Now I know you’re suspicious.
This is simply not how au pairs are recruited, it never has been, it never will be. Other than possible, very minor application fees, recruitment companies don’t charge the person they are recruiting, they charge the person or company who does the recruiting. If I’m trying to find an employee it’s me that pays the recruitment company, not the applicants. That’s just how it works.
This is yet another “advance fee” scam. That $929 is what they’re looking for. Once you pay them that amount, and I bet they’ll need you to use Western Union to make the payment, that’s the common link with almost all scams we’ve ever encountered, you’ll probably never hear from them again. Unfortunately there have been cases where victims who have been scammed are then scammed yet again by the very same scammers. They realise that they have already found someone naïve and they continue to scam them for more and more money. Presumably the repeat victims are either startlingly gullible or they are desperately clinging to some hope that they’ll get their money back somehow.
One final clue. If you do a Google search for “Mercy Scolt” you get only 3 results (strange if she’s a journalist), two of which identify that name as being involved in 419 scams.
That’s our key recommendation whenever you receive an unsolicited email like this. Do some Google searching and see if the internet can help you. And of course you can always come to Consumer Watchdog as well!