Funny scams, have you been emailed from having a post answered?
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Anonymous
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This just happened to me the other day.
Hello, How are you doing? hope you have a great weekend, am sending you the details about the position, My name is James Matthias, and My wife's name is Kate. We are relocating to your neighborhood from Canada. I recently got a contract with a company on a private research job. However, We need someone that will help in running some few errands and babysitting. We need someone to work 3 days per week 4 hours per day and job includes to pick up of our baby from daycare a few blocks away,someone that is mature whether young or older, loves children, reliable and punctual. The Babysitter will take care of a 14 month old boy for three days a week and will have to take baby home, give him a bath, dinner brush his hair, clean his lunch kit/bag, put back pack away school clothes away and monitor him with the best care possible. We are willing to provide a metro card to pick him up at daycare. responsibilities for baby will be to look after him feed him meals, bath, keep him clean safe and of course change diapers regularly. My kid is my life so i entrust you to give him the best care.. I will be offering you $400 weekly, i will be needing your services for 4 hours at any suitable time of yours between Monday, Wednesday and Friday. If you believe you are fit for this position in as much you will prove yourself to be a reliable and good person, I will instruct my financial to pay for the first week before our arrival so as to secure your service in advance. I will be waiting to hear from you. Matthias Family I emailed him back telling him I knew this is a scam and don't contact me again! Ok he says he is from Canada and relocating to my neighborhood. I asked him how does he know what neighborhood I live in? I didn't mention any area.  METRO CARD
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Anonymous
| It's stupid. Why bother? |
Anonymous
You are dumb. |
Anonymous
| Troll |
Anonymous
| The worst thing to do is respond. I recommend changing all your passwords and do not open emails from anyone you don't know. This is why websites like care say do not communicate through your personal email |
Anonymous
| She's probably been hacked by now. |
Anonymous
| They got it from a site, not my personal email. |
Anonymous
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You are dumb.  Obviously you didn't pass the first grade, with that comment.
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Anonymous
You use that term way too often to still have no clue what it means. Google is your friend. |
Anonymous
| I got the exact same email but he also had my phone number. Apparently gonannies.com isn't very reliable to keep my info secure!!! |
Anonymous
Were you registered on any nanny websites? What area do you live in? |
Anonymous
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I just filled out so many. It was go nannies, go figure.
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Anonymous
| I am in Maryland |
Anonymous
| About a month ago i was looking for a nanny position and i made profile at www.gonannies.com. I was contacted by a person called "Jamie Lorenzo" (jamielorz@gmail.com), trough a sms saying that they got my info on gonannies and they have a job to offer me. I started to exchange emails and sms with this person. He said that he and his family were moving to where i live from Canada and they had people helping them with their moving arrangements. I believed them and accepted the job offer. He said that his assistant or something would send me a check, with the amout of my payment of my first week to secure that i was going to work for them and more moneyfor me to transfer to his "assistant" to take care of their grocery shopping. They sent me the checked and i deposited into my account. Next day he contacted me and said that i was supposed to transfer the remaining amount ( minus my first week of work) trough walmart money transfer. The money was in my account and i cashed out and went to walmart. When i got there an employee from walmart asked me if i knew the person that i was sending money and i said no. This walmart employee warned me that this was fraud and they woukd not make the money transfer. I contacted "Jamie" telling him that and he started to convince me that he was an honest person, he sent me a picture of him and his "family" and i should try to tranfer this money trough money pak. Since i had the money in my hands i was afraid of not doing what he wanted because that was not my money ( i thought) and he had my address and i bought moneypak cards and send him pictures to him get this money. I know that i am an idiot believing this person, but i would never transfer this money if in the first place the money was not in my account. I would never imagine that the bank would make the money of a fraudulent check available to me and let me cashed out. I just don't know what to do, but at this moment i feel so violated by the website gonannies.com to expose my info to a person like that and by my bank that made money of a fraudulent check available in my account. I have all emails, sms and moneypak cards that i exchanged with this horrible person. I also have the envelope that they sent me the check. It is hard to believe that a website like gonannies.com expose good people to this kind of crimes. They are not reliable and they need to do something about this matter. They can NOT pass honest people's info to scammers. |
Anonymous
| PP why would you accept a job offer when you've never MET the family in person, don't know where/what type of conditions you'd be working in?! Were you that desperate for a check that you didn't care? |