VERY fishy inquiry into my daycare... Thoughts?

[Van]

Thanks Jenny Boa for copying the scammers reply, they want to send their cheque so when it goes into our bank a/c they can have our bank details and somehow get at our money, or how does it work?

[Aida]

I got this same email from this person. I hope nobody here gets scammed.

Beware everyone.

Aida

is this the message you got

To: cantinmoore@icloud.c om
From: cantinmoores@icloud. com
Subject: Registration
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:05:00 +0000

Greetings,

My name is Cantin Moore. I just searched for your contact on internet, when searching for a daycare in your area for our two little boys. We are relocating to your area and we need a daycare to register our little boys as soon as possible ahead of our arrival in your area. Their names and age are Konbri 2 years and Harry 3 years 10 months old.

I will like to know if you have open space to registers our boys because we want to register our boys with you now before our arrival, so we can focus on setting up our business without any waste of time on searching for daycare once we get over there.

We will like to always drop our children at your daycare Monday to Friday every morning by 10 AM to 3 PM or 4 PM. Also i will like to know how much money do you charges per week, day or hourly, please explain?

Please get back to me on time if you have open for our 2 boys and let me know your fees as well, so we can continue on their registration process with you.

I will be waiting for your quick response.

Thanks

ALSO SENT ME FAMILY PIC WHICH I'M SURE NOT HER FAMILY

[sunnydays]

With a scam like this, the goal is usually to send you a cheque, but it's for more than is required. So then they ask you to deposit it and withdraw the difference to send back to them. By the time you discover that the cheque has bounced, they have already got your money and they are gone. Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot police can do about these types of scams because it is so hard to trace to the criminals. They are usually overseas in places like Nigeria and use cyber cafes to send out their scams. If anyone wants to read a really great book about this whole thing, read "419". It is fiction, but is based on the reality of internet scammers in Nigeria. It is fascinating and gripping from start to finish. I doubt anybody needs to panic about giving your address at this point, but if you do receive a cheque, take it to the police and under no circumstances should you cash it!!!

[jeneric]

Looks like this scam is still on the move!! Just got this email the other day. I wish I had read this form. Should have listened to my husband he totally thought this was very fishy. I'm in Ottawa so it is still making its rounds. To bad nothing can be done about this.

[KristaBowmanville]

Hi!

I have now contacted the police who directed me to the Canadian office that deals with cases of fraud. At 10am Friday morning when I made my report, the person who was taking my statement said that this was the second reported case, with the exact same details, that was reported to her that day. The common link between me & the other Day Care Provider was that we both advertised on this site.

I'll give a quick description of the attempted fraud. A person named Cantin Moore contacted me via email to register her two boys in my Day Care. She said that they were Canadians who lived in Mexico for the last 3 years and were moving back within the next 2 weeks. I replied giving my telephone number. They had a funny way around how they didn't want to call, just to move forward with their children's registration process. Their English was poor. Yes, the situation was odd. They asked questions about expectations, food, and daily rate. I answered these questions and then they sent me a family photo. Everything was weird. My alarm bells went off when they said that they wanted my name and address to send me a cheque for 2 weeks worth of care, although I previously said that a $100 deposit would be fine.
This is when I wanted to talk to someone about this situation. The Fraud Centre gave me a few scenarios of how these people would proceed from here to get money from me. One way is by sending too much money to me and then saying to just cash the cheque and send back the amount that I do not require. Well, whatever someone sends them, would be unrecoverable. Also, the cheques they send are usually stolen and falsified.
I just wanted to put this out there so that no DC Providers would fall prey to them.

[mamaof4]

thank you for alerting us to this. I will send this message onto the admin

[bright sparks]

Hmmm it seems like this scam has also produced a sudden jump in new members this month?!?!

[cfred]

They definitely found all of you from your ads on daycarebear. I advertise with this site as well, but am full, so my listing is down at the moment. I did not receive the email.

[cheribaby1972]

I have also been receiving communications from this person. The last reply I sent was that if they contacted me again I would involve police. I received another email this morning

"Greetings,

So sorry for not getting back to you on time, we've been so busy with our relocation. I was contacted by my associate (Mariya Anderson) that the deposit payment has been mailed to you since 2 days ago, you should receive it before ending of this week or early next week.

Please confirm you receive this message and you're waiting for the payment, also let me know the moment you receive the payment, to be sure things are going as planned.

Important: I'm very sorry to inform you that we went to buy our flight tickets yesterday for my wife and kids but the earliest seats we got was January 6th. i know you won't be happy hearing this but we're as sad as you can be for not been able to make it over there on time as planned, but the most important is we got the tickets yesterday and 6th of January is intact.

Thanks "

Anyone who has had any emails like this please contact the fraud department at 1-888-495-8501

[KerBear]

I received the same emails and gave my mailing information. I feel like a boob!
I was not asked for any help providing for his family (Andrea (wife), Konbri (2) and Harry(3 yrs 10 months))
I had the feeling it was very odd, but didn't want to disregard just in case. Asked them to call me, Got the reply of the issue with the phone card and calling times. I asked several questions, including for them to solidify a meeting date to sign contracts and these were all avoided. I saw it as an oversight by a desperately time pressed family.

How do we stop this??? Obviously the email he got was from here as my other listing has only my phone number. I looked at my listing and would like to know IF I make my email private/unavailable, can interested families still contact me?

I wish I had taken the time to google this guys name as THAT is how I found out about this scam this morning (while awaiting a deposit that was due to arrive yesterday despite my being insistent none was required until the contracts were signed)

If I can help anyone with information I may have, please contact me and I am happy to help out!