Au Pair Scam - "Wilson Hogan"<[email protected]>

[AlanJones]

The following email was passed to me by a forum member. This is a scam, no vacancy exists the scammer will try an scam you out of money by asking for fees or travel costs or accomodation costs.

Received from: "Wilson Hogan"<[email protected]>
Reply-to: [email protected]
Subject: I can't wait to have you here with my kids,take care
IP Address: 41.217.0.4 Nigeria

It's me Bárbara from Brazil I'll be sending you all the informations you need.

Hello Au pair,

I am Wilson Hogan and i am in need of a nanny because our nanny had to go back to her country cos her mother was very sick and her attention was needed, i got your email address on an aupair site, read your profile and i think you are just the perfect nanny we are looking for to be taking care of our kids for us.

We have two kids Diane and Joe, Diane is 2 while Joe is 4 years old, i work at Elvis Insurance Company as the Manager and my Wife works at Nat west bank, we close very later from work and ever since our nanny left our kids have been staying with my mother and she stays about 2 hours drive but we will like our kids to be staying with us and that is why i am contacting you to know if you are interested in taking care of our kids for us while we are off to work, we stay in London on York Street and here is our address 253 Berkeley street, Westminster, London,

You will be staying with us so you don't have to worry about where you will be staying when you get here cos we leave in a big house that has lots of rooms and i am sure you will like our place and also your room, you will be having all the privacy you want so you have nothing to worry about, and about payment we will be paying you 700 pounds every week and that does not include you taxes cos we will be taking care of that and you will be free on Saturday's and Sunday's and you can go anywhere you like,

I will be more than happy to have you working for us and i will be waiting to read your reply to know if you are ready to work for us.

Regards,
Wilson & Family

[AlanJones]

Here is a photograph the scammer uses, together with a fake passport.

I'm afraid he is getting smarter. Every e-mail I got from him used a private proxy server. I had to get creative to get his IP. Same with the "Travel Agency" he used, World Travels Agency ([email protected]).

At any rate, I got the same script just with different names for the kids.

This "Wilson Hogan" has "showed up" in my email to, just before Christmas, and he is still in need of an aupair....Thanks for the warning of this "Wilson Hogan".

Welcome to Scamwarners. You deserve much of the credit though. If you hadn't been suspicious and done an Internet search, you wouldn't have arrived here.

HELLO,

I have recieved email from this Wilson Hogan, he found me on wwweasyaupaircom where I have assigned as an aupair looking for a family.
Now, I wonder about Anne Smith Benard, anyone who knows anything?
Take care!

Hello ANNEBE. If you post the email in which Anne Smith Benard tells you about the au pair position and her family, then we should be able to ascertain from that whether or not it is a scam.

The best place to post it is in the 'Help! Is this a scam?' forum here:

viewforum.php?f=4

Click on 'NewTopic' and then it will be easily recognised as a new query.

Hello annebe,
I've received an email from anne smith benard too...I've posted it as a new topic