Pay attention to the address - SCAM UK

It appears in most of the invitations. Its the same and what changes is the name of the agent.

IMMIGRATION WORK PERMIT SECTION
Emirate Travels and Tours
5-11 Lavington Street.
London. SE1 0NZ
Email:[email protected]


Houghton David to me


Here is my family Id: 100398 on aupair-options.com. You can logon and check about my family.

Have a lovely day

--- On Thu, 8/6/09, xxxxxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: GET BACK TO US
To: "Emirate Travel" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Houghton David" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 11:50 AM


I do apologize for it but I want you to know that I am still veryfing at au pair.com if Houghton is a real family in UH as well if this agency is a partner of the web site with the owner of the site.
live. com ([email protected]) is a free website.



5-11 Lavington Street.
London. SE1 0NZ

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Emirate Travel <[email protected]> wrote:

ATTN:-
Goodday to you madam, We are awaiting your document and payment for the Uk work permit and Visa, Because MR Donald Houghton called our office this morning that he will be making his own payment on your behalf today.

kindly act fast because we have already forward your name to the UK VISA DEPARTMENT.....

Hope to read from you ..

Mrs Carson.
Emirate Travels & Tour
IMMIGRATION WORK PERMIT SECTION
Emirate Travels and Tours
5-11 Lavington Street.
London. SE1 0NZ
Email:[email protected]


Mod edit: removed poster's personal information -Jillian

I do apologize for it but I want you to know that I am still veryfing at au pair.com if Houghton is a real family in UH as well if this agency is a partner of the web site with the owner of the site.
live. com ([email protected]) is a free website.

I don't think they will be able to help. From their website -

We do not give any guarantee that the registered persons of our website are still available or suitable host families or aupairs. We do not have any documents of any of our registrants nor do we carry out any checks on them.

It's left to the aupair to check if it's a real job, which isn't difficult once you know the signs of a scam.
The scammer is very unlikely to be in the UK. To anyone living in the UK, it's quite clear from the wording of their emails, that they know little or nothing about the country.

Welcome to Scamwarners kyka. Well Done and Thank you for posting this information - it will alert and save many from being scammed.

Please note this warning on the aupair-options web site;

Please do not send money in advance to anyone even if the person claims it is for ticket agent services.

If you have any questions or concerns a Scamwarners team member will be glad to help you.

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Note this page http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090313040259AAfJ01O

5-11 Lavington Street. London. SE1 0NZ, is there a travel agency in this address? thank you?

Can I ask why you are asking, because often in Yahoo Answers we get asked for information regarding travel agents whereby the person asking has been offered a job and has to send money to the travel agent for the processing of things like a work permit/visa/flight ticket, and I have to warn you that they have all been scams...especially if a telephone number has been provided that starts anything like 44 70.

If this is why you are asking then I seriously suspect that you are being scammed.

Also see this site for list of legimimate business addresses in Lavington Street;

http://www.londononline.co.uk/area/Lavington_Street_SE1/

[AlanJones]

This is a definite au pair visa fee scam.

No legitimate travel agent would use a free webmail service.

Also, travel agents do not sort out visas for you. That is up to the person travelling to do for themselves, by going to the Consulate of the country they wish to travel to.