an offer to be an aupair in USA

Hello,
I have found a wonderful family living in Texas county, USA. The emails they have written are nice, but I have one problem. I said the family that the best possibility how to get visa for me is that the family has to register in czech agency (I am from the Czech republic) because they offer a lot of benefits for me.
The family persists in their agancy. They wrote me an email: [email protected]. I have decided that the title of the agency is mmasongrouptraveltour, but I didnt find any website on the internet. Next strange thing is the answer that I get from this email:

Hello ......,

You are welcome to our service!
I believe you are from Mr ...,
We are not sure how long you want to stay in Texas

Do you have a valid passport?

If you do have a valid passport, then it is going to be easier and faster
to take care of the US Au pair visa with the comprehensive insurance and
your working documents with Mr .....

The costs are as follows:
USA Au pair visa costs: $375.00
Comprehensive insurance costs :$200.00
Work documents for 1 year costs: $320.00

Total of $895.00 individually.

You will pay via western union money transfer or money-gram money transfer.

After you pay this money,you will then submit the following to these email
address.

1, A scanned copy of your valid international passport.
2, A scanned copy of your current passport photograph.


It will take a couple working days from the day of payment,then you can
travel to join Mr .... in USA.

Thank you Applicant,

''We are designed to take you there!''

Mmasongrouptraveltour


So, what do you think about it? Is that a scam?
Thanks.

Hi adelinos, welcome to Scamwarners.

I have only just had a quick skim over this but i am confident to say that it is a scam.

The big give away is this persons insistence on using Western Union for you to make a payment.

I have asked some people with a lot more knowledge to look over the website details and we should be able to get it closed down.

If you have any questions please dont hesitate to ask

Hello there adelinos,

Could you please post (or PM, or mail) the headers of the email you received from [email protected]?

The scammers have set up this domain to sound legitimate, and we can get it closed down if he have some proof.

If you are unsure how to retrieve headers, let me know what email provider you are using and I'll explain how to find them.

Thank you for this site..my little sister nearly got conned until i goggled the travel agency listed!!

i just want people to know that these people exsist & pls pls pls b careful!!


On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, The Mark Lennox Family <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Au Pair/Nanny,






I hope my mail meets you in good state of health. I am Mark Lennox, 41 years of age from United States. I am a Consultant Contractor and I reside at #162 Macarthur blv. Hauppague, NY, 11788, USA. As part of the information you may require, I have a 4 years old wonderful and interesting to be with twins namely Chris and Sheani. Due to the nature of my work and the unexpected transfer of my wife to Portugal, I hardly have time for my lovely Kids which prompted an idea of seeking an Au Pair/Nanny. After scrolling through your profile on http://www.newaupair.com, both myself and my Wife consider you worthy of the job vacancy in my Home.


Your duties includes taking the kids to school/bringing them back home, play with them, go to Museums, Playground, Cinema Hall, prepare/fix their meals and snacks. You will have your Private Room which consist of Air-Conditional, Television, 12 hours Internet Access and a Telephone to keep you in touch with your friends, families and maybe relatives as often as you may desire, a Bathroom and Toilet. You will have Saturdays and Sundays as your off days, so to enable you have enough time for yourself otherwise, you will be paid for extra services. As for your salary, I will be willing to pay you 2,000 Dollars for every 4 weeks and a pocket fee of 500 Dollars weekly which I suppose should be enough for your primary needs. Regards my family pictures, I will send some upon request.


With all due respect, I will be hoping to hear from you as soon as possible if interested at the said position. Bye for now and may the gentle breeze of all moment blow cool memory into your brain, Amen!





Warmest regards,
Mark Lennox & Family.
Email: [email protected]
Phone Number: +1 315 238 5008
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:35 PM
Subject: Thank You For Your Reply, Liddell


Hello Liddel,


I seriously appreciate your reply knowing you are willing and ready to be part of my family. I really need you to come over here to assist me take proper care of my wonderful Angels since I hardly have the time for them just as I previously explained, so I would appreciate you come over here if possible before next weekend, but since you don't have visa and work permit, I would advise you contact my Travel Agency to help you for the USA Visa and Work Permit, here is the link through which you can contact them ([email protected]). Do not hesitate to let them know you are from me as there may be some consideration in the charges so explain all you need for the traveling to USA to them and I assure that I will assist you with half of what so ever amount needed for the processing of your Visa and Work Permit just to justify how urgent I need your services as well as how serious I am about your coming down to work for my family as an Au Pair and for now, do consider the job yours.


As for how long you can work for my family, well I think that completely depends on you but left to me, I do not intend to see you off in the next 2-3 years because I really would need your services. I will be very grateful if you respond better to me. You have absolutely nothing to worry about as you'll certainly be treated like one of the family member and you will have 5 days to work in a week and 2 days as your off days which is to be Saturdays and Sundays. You will have the opportunities to do what ever you want for your own good on weekends but provided they are worth doing. I already discussed about you with my little Angels, they seem to like you despite the fact that they are yet to neither see nor talk with you. Well hope to hear from you the soonest possible. Bye for now.


Warmest regards from,
The Mark Lennox & Family.

[quote="adelinos"]Hello,
I have found a wonderful family living in Texas county, USA. The emails they have written are nice, but I have one problem. I said the family that the best possibility how to get visa for me is that the family has to register in czech agency (I am from the Czech republic) because they offer a lot of benefits for me.
The family persists in their agancy. They wrote me an email: [email protected]. I have decided that the title of the agency is mmasongrouptraveltour, but I didnt find any website on the internet. Next strange thing is the answer that I get from this email:



The costs are as follows:
USA Au pair visa costs: $375.00
Comprehensive insurance costs :$200.00
Work documents for 1 year costs: $320.00

Total of $895.00 individually.

You will pay via western union money transfer or money-gram money transfer.

After you pay this money,you will then submit the following to these email
address.

1, A scanned copy of your valid international passport.
2, A scanned copy of your current passport photograph.

Mate ...all this is a scam, money & seems identity theft as well..do not send any poor eemails to them

papepopo is absolutely correct. There is absolutely no doubt at all that it's a scam.

....but I have one problem....

The ONLY problem is that you are not dealing with a family in Texas but a West African internet cafe scammer.

You must apply for a visa in person and the US government does not accept payments for a visa/work permit by Western Union. You must apply in your home country, and not over the internet.

Any money you pay will go straight in to the pocket of the scammer. Governments have bank accounts, but scammers prefer cash - your cash.