Beware of Fraud and Scammers

Scammers of direct urgent hiring of nanny or driver for U.K. Please be cautious of these people that you might meet on the internet.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Beware of U.K. Scammers

There are some people, particularly from the U.K. as they give their address as from such country.
They would email you that they need a"nanny". And they would hire you. But when they give you process or the agency where to get the visa. They will ask so many fees to pay. I was almost become their victim. Until I found out that they are scammers. Fraud, they would tell lies for you to trust them.

Their Technique is like this:
  • First they will email you. They got your email address from someone or somewhere in the net, that maybe you post.
  • The email contents saying about the person's current status, and about his/her family status, that you might believe.
  • Then if you would email back. He/she will give you the information on how to get and process to get a working permit and a visa. And give you the email address of the "agency" that will help you get the documents.
  • Afterwards, if you email the agency, it will mail back its list of procedures and that's the time you will find so many fees to pay.
  • If you do the said instructions, and pay the fees, you become the victim now...
It was doubtful, that is why I started researching if the "agency" was real or not. It took me whole day, but i found nothing, about the agency. So i said this must be fake. But it's not an accurate proof.
So, I started searching about the address that he gave. I found out it's a true address. Even his name might be real, and/or a name can be change anytime you want.. Thus, its not accurate again.
I went thinking of what proof should I research. Coz, I only have the email.
Suddenly, I taught, maybe I can try searching about the telephone number that he gave. So, I searched, typing the phone numbers in the google search bar.
Fortunate, and only two (2) website links appeared. And im glad it was only two so it's really easy to check right away.

Then the first one i clicked was:
http://www.419legal.org/419-legal-blog/32478-urgent-looking-foreign-nanny.html

I was kinda shocked when the phone numbers were matched with one of the number contents of the forum site. This site is a forum of some victims and also who encounter such things like this, and is trying to stop it and inform other people that might also be a victim.

There i discover, the same email contents too... Only the name of the sender was changed.
I was grateful i found this site.

In my analysis, the scammer is targeting always the Filipinos.

So, I post this for people to know and to hopefully stop this evil-doings.