VERY fishy inquiry into my daycare... Thoughts?

[Nik]

Ugh!! I also received the same email, I thought it was suspicious but to be honest I was a little excited because I am just starting out so adding more to my group is my goal. The correspondence always seemed a bit off. I am so happy I decided to join the forum today to see what everyone's thoughts were. The scammers asked if they could have my address and send two week deposit. This finally confirmed my initial spidey sense that this wasn't legit. I didn't ask for a deposit and my address is on my correspondence. I will mark the email as spam. I wonder if police should be notified or the news?? So happy I found this forum! Thank you for all the response!

[a.isaacs@hotmail.com]

I rec'd the same email, I thought everything was okay, until he asked me for my information. I feel scammed. Who do we report this to?

[tamful]

HI EVERYONE I had the EXACT same messages you all had .... I was almost convinced but my gut told me no .. my friend searched and found this forum.. it confirmed our suspicions thank goodness.

[jomomma]

Well i was stupid enough to give my address. Thank goodness i didnt include my apartment number. But he does have my name and the rest of my address. I am scared. what should i do?


Edit: I DID give him my info after all I'm so sad...

[jomomma]

Hi...did he respond further? He has my address too. I'm scared now...

[jomomma]

I rec'd the same email, I thought everything was okay, until he asked me for my information. I feel scammed. Who do we report this to?

I forwarded my email conversation to info@antifraudcentre .ca
PLEASE DO THE SAME BECAUSE I AM VERY SCARED AND WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION.

[Cheryl24]

Oh no, me too, I thought it was fascinating to have kids from Mexico coming to my daycare, I will report it now.

[Cheryl24]

Oh no, me too, I thought it was fascinating to have kids from Mexico coming to my daycare, I will report it now.

I just filed report too

[5 Little Monkeys]

I am not knowledgeable on scams but I would assume because he(most likely it's a group actually) is emailing ladies from different provinces that he is nowhere near any of you. It is a money scam and he most likely doesn't even live in Canada.

If you are truly scared and want to feel more assured, give your local police a call and explain the situation to them. They will be better to talk to and can answer some of your questions. They will probably want to know about the scam too

[Jenny Bao]

Cantin Moore <cantinmoore@icloud. com>SCAM!!!

Hi,

Happy to hear that the deposit is not important at this time, but i want you to please see it from my own view as well that: I will not be coming with my wife and kids, it's very important to put everything in proper order for them ahead of their arrival over there. Also she won't be able to take more than $2,000 in cash with her to Canada which will be what they will be surviving on till i arrive because we presently have no Canadian account and my staying back like i said is to put thing in order according to our financial importance. I have to terminate our credit lines and all order attachment with our banks here in order to have our funds transferred to our Canadian account, this is part of the reason why am staying back.

And i'm also in fear that things can change when you are making arrangement like this without using deposit to make it a concrete arrangement that the space will not be given to another family, I must tell you that i contacted about 4 different daycare before i got your contact for my children, but they are all full and telling me they won't have anymore space until 6 months time or 9 months time, I won't want anything to change at all, because i believe this is a very hard time to get hold of any daycare or home daycare. that's why the deposit is more than important at this time because it's like a luck to have you.

This all process is to have everything ready for my family, so my absent won't affect them financially and generally till i arrive. Please send me your name and address to mail the deposit to you on time, so i can be sure that everything will be intact as conclude.

You will receive deposit within 2 to 3 business day. Waiting to hear from you soon.

-Daycare in Burnaby ,BC