IS THIS A SCAM - [email protected]

Is this a scam???? I didn't respond to the 1st email I received and now I am receiving another. I have registered for nanny sites but she does not name any sites in which I AM registered. Please help!

The following is what I received:

From: Kathleen P.
To: [email protected]
Subject: I want you to work for my family, Very Urgent please respond

Hi, I wonder if you received my first email, My name is Kath I am presently living in Canada working with my company but my office want me to travel to do a course in the USA, so now my arrival date to ILLINOIS is on September 20th 2009, I have gone through your profile I saw on the nanny website and that is why I contact you concerning taking care of my two kids, I proposed to be paying you $500 weekly but I don't know why you didn't respond to my previous mail and the days of your work should be from Monday to Friday for 5hours daily, which is from 8: AM TO 1: PM, email me back so we can conclude so that I can secure you for my arrival date. so we can further discuss about your time and schedule, I don't mind if you want live in or live out any one is OK by me.


NB: Please tell me your present location.
Regards,
Kath
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Thanks for your help.
Kathy G.

Moved from the Welcome thread and relevant title added - Ralph

Definitely a scam. The English contains the normal grammatical errors of an African (verb tense, misuse of capitalization, disjointed sentences, word choice). The basic concept of the script is pretty standard. This would turn into one of two types of scams--either a travel/visa scam or a check scam.

Travel/visa--if you are outside of the US, "her" travel agent will arrange for your rush passport/visas for a fee --of course there is no travel agent, just her or a designee picking up your cash.
Fake check scam (she sends you a check for your pay, you are to cash it and forward much of it to the piano instructor, gardener, whatever; or she sends you a check, you cash it, a family emergency arises and she is not coming so she needs a refund urgently. Banks are required to issue cash in 5 days if a check has not been determined to be fraudulent, but they have the right to take the total amount of the check, plus fees/fines, back from you even weeks later if they discover it was fake or stolen. The scammer needs you give them the money immediately (before the bank discovers the check is fraudulent).

A few other points:
-No parent would be offering a nanny a job based on a profile--they would want at least an interview and references.
-No parent would be making final job arrangements by email.
-No site is referenced because they are mass mailing this to people posted on multiple sites, and may not know which applicant was from which site if they bought a list of addresses, so they just leave that site out.

Edit to add: can you add any other information you have on "her"--email address, phone #'s if you have any or receive any, last name if she is using one...

Hi k7129g

Welcome to Scamwarners.

As pointed out already it certainly is a scam although a little better written than most.

Please take a look through our employment scams section where you will find many more of these nanny scams as well as a sticky on the subject which you can view by clicking here

Could you please post the first email you received as well with any of your own details removed as this may help to prevent others from falling for the same scam

If you have any questions, please ask