How the scam works:
(with video below) You have always loved kids and decide to post your resume online looking for a job as a nanny, babysitter, or caretaker. Platforms such as Care.com or Urban Sitter are great for finding such gigs.
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After posting your resume, you receive a message from a loving family with a little baby. They are friendly and are willing to pay an amazing wage as they really want the best for their little darling. You are on a shortlist with some other promising candidates and they want to get to know a bit more about all of you so that they can make the best decision for their family. The Nanny Scam comes in two variations:
Scenario 1. While at the interview, they mention that you are really their first option, but they're concerned in case you are applying for other jobs and aren't really serious about this one. They suggest you pay a deposit, which you will get back.
You really want this job as they sound like nice folks and the wage is great. Now you are really worried in case they pick someone else from their short list so you agree to pay the deposit. You've just been scammed, since there is no darling little baby, no loving family, just the scammer.
Watch the video below to see in action this variation of the scam exposed.
Nanny For Hire Scam In The News Video
Scenario 2. Your employer might claim to be a mom who is deaf or mute and needs help with her son who is bound to a wheelchair. To soften up the story, she might say that she's moving with her son to your city after she lost her husband in a car accident, which left the son injured as well.
In this case, after ‘hiring' you, the scammer asks you to purchase a brand new wheelchair for the son, for the day when they arrive in town. She will send you a check for a couple of thousand dollars just so you can buy the wheelchair in time. As soon as you receive and deposit the check into your account, the scammer will ask you to purchase the wheelchair from a specific company right away, which will make you send $2,000 to an unknown company. Little do you know that the check she just sent you will bounce in a few business days and you'll be in debt.
How to avoid:
Don't ever pay for a job – the job is supposed to pay you. Never accept checks in great amounts from companies you don't know anything about. On the other hand, companies such as Care.com urges its users to be vigilant and background check the 'employees' extremely well.
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Watch Out if you are on Care.Com there is scam going on about pet sitters. You will be contacted saying they want to hire you to take care of their pet (This scam can also be on caring for children.) They are going to mail you a week’s pay in advance. If you don’t mind they would like for you to stock their apartment before they arrive. Their realtor will be contacting you with the keys. Then it changes again they tell you that their financial clerk is sending you money and you are to deposit it in your checking account and then you are to mail the overpayment back to their financial clerk so they can pay their rent. So this is where the scammer gets you. DO NOT EVER DEPOSIT THE CHECK YOU RECEIVE OR MAIL ANY MONEY BACK TO THE SCAMMER. Their check is a fraudulent check and the bank will close your account and get you for fraud. If you ever suspect a bad check call the bank the check is written on and advise them you want to verify this checking account has the funds and is the checking account fraudulent. The name used in my case was George Kurk phone numbers listed below. The scammers uses several names and phone numbers. Watch Out you must search out every check or promise . The name of the person who tried to scam me was George Kurt Phone # 440-256-6248 and 954-800-1586. Here is another phone that is a scammer 760-593-3542 out of San Marcos, CA. Be sure to notice the phone numbers will be from one area and the check will be from somewhere entirely different. The banks are real banks but the accounts are not no money or even a real account number. These scammers are praying on the elderly and the population that needs jobs so bad that they do not recognize this as a scam. Be smart if it sounds too good to be true it’s a scam. They are even on the State working websites trying to get you to work for them only it is a scam.
Beware of criminals on Care.com- posing as a third party helping an overseas family move to local area. Scammers have digital printed checks (so real looking the bank cashed it). Victim is asked to cash check and deposit it into bank accounts. After deposit money is immediately withdrawn and person cashing the check is left on the hook for repayment.
The wheelchair scam is huge nowadays. I just got offered the same deal as mention in scenario #2!! Beware!