Mr Richard Sadler Au Pair Scam

I have a new-ish one kids!

It's a textbook Au Pair scam. Bulk e-mail, unrealistic salary, suspicious travel agent.


1st message from Mr Sadler:

"My name is Mr Richard Sadler and I am an Engineer, My ex wife is a nurse but we have been divorced for 2months now and I am usually very busy, I live in Manchester, UK. I am looking for a nanny/Au pair to take care of my kids. My kids names are Casey is 5 and Jerry is 2years old.

I want an Au pair/Nanny that is ready to come over hear hopefully when you can come, He/She will be treated as part of my family and not just like an Au pair. Also I will want you play with the kids and teach them new things so as to widen their horizon, all necessary incentives like your personal car, computer, telephone, accommodation, bathroom e.t.c will be taking care of by me.
As a family we enjoy barbecue (weather permitting),socializing, generally having fun, reading, computers, TV, the boys love computer games , arts & crafts.
Food is another great love of ours - given the time I enjoy cooking.
Please get back to me if you are interested in the job.

Waiting to hear from you.

Mr Richard Sadler"

My response (baiting, I knew from the terrible English and the fact that my au pair ad specified I want to work in France!)

"Yes, I am interested in this job. Can you please send me more information?"

I get back;

Thank you so much for everything you have said (All 14 words of it! - NonServiam), Your words can tell you are very honest and down to earth. You are the kind of person my kids need. I am happy you meet all the requirements and you like kids, I am also happy that my kids age is okay for you. My kids are not troublesome, so You wont have any problems.

You will be paid a sum of 300Pounds on weekly bases, Also you will be paid 5Pounds daily as your pocket money and will be subjected to changes base on your performance.
Thank you for taking time to email me back and I am happy that you are interested to work for my family, You will never regret coming to the UK. You are expected to wash the kids cloths, take their bath and take Casey to school. You will work 8hours daily.

kindly e-mail the traveling agency for the processing of a Valid UK visa, working permit, Valid UK Insurance Number & a UK tax clearance certificate to live & work in the UK.

Below is their contact details.

FOUR SEASONS TRAVELING AGENCY
E-mail- [email protected]
Tel: +447045776284
Contact person: MR. DONALD SPUCKER

let them know how urgent you need the documents & do not forget to e-mail them to know how much it will cost me to get it done as soon as possible as. Tell me more about yourself and your family and also send me some photos.

You can call me if you have any questions to ask me. I initially put my personal phone number +447045718120


Hope to hear from you soonest.
Mr Richard Sadler

Spot the scam, guys?

As you said, it is a standard au pair scam. He doesn't waste any time getting to the money part, either.

The 44-70 phone number is of course a redirect number to make him look like he is in UK (most likely he is in Africa and calls are simply directed to his cell phone).

For those who aren't familiar with this scam, the "traveling agency" is the scammer himself or an accomplice, and the victim will te told to send money, most likely via western union or moneygram, in order to get the necessary visas to work in the UK. In reality, the money is going into the scammer's pocket. There is no job, and no travel documents are being prepared. If he succeeds in getting money from you once, he will likely make up some other fees, and he will disappear once he thinks he has gotten all he can from you.

I thought as much. I am baiting him a little bit, and he says he wants to take on msn or Skype - but those things are open to viruses as it is so I'm not even replying on that one. I'll see if he pushes things.

I got an email from him too. Word for word, what yours said.

I also recieve email from Mr. Richard Sadler. I even send 200pounds to western union.thru the receiver Monica
Henderson of Fourseason travel Agency London.I trust Him co'z He send me all the information regarding his status.and also address and photos together with His family.So.now my money is gone.I find out that He is a scam.when I receive email from Paticia Judge.that She also needs aupair.when i search her email thru Facebook,I found out she is one of the scam warners.and and I saw also the name of Mr. Richard Sadler.they are people, don't know how to work hard.they just want to feed their family thru scam.Hope and pray god will punished Him.How can I take back my money.

Hi Lyren, welcome to Scamwarners.

I am very sorry to hear you have lost money to these scammers, unfortunately there is no way of having it returned to you.

You may receive emails from the scammer telling you that you need to make one more payment or you may even receive what looks like an email from the police telling you they will be able to return your money, these emails will be emore lies designed to steal more of your money.

You are completely right, they have no intention of doing a hard days work, they make a living by stealing from hard working people and it does not bother them in the slightest as to what harm they cause to tehe people they steal from.

Ironically, they usually are very religious, they even pray to god that he ebrings them good victims who will pay them, they have no remorse and will tell any number of lies to steal, please be careful with anybody on the internet.

Small update but worth mentioning. This scammer is persistent - s/he did try to add me on gmail chat. Simply ignored it since I really don't need more proof of this scam. Obviously s/he is doing everything to appear legitimate and friendly. We really need to look out for these things, a lot of people who have been fooled by the scams are fooled by details like photos of the children and employment.

Looking for any kind of employment on the internet is risky but there are legitimate jobs out there. We just need to approach every offer critically and do all the research we can. (And also, what kind of responsible parent would really send photos of their kids to a total stranger online anyway!?)