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.