Nanny Emma Entwistle contacted Nursery World after receiving an e-mailthat purported to be from a man wanting to offer her a job caring forhis two-year-old son.
Emma had been looking for a job and carried out searches on severalrecruitment websites.
It is believed that fraudsters are searching nanny and au pairrecruitment sites for personal details and contacting prospectivenannies to try to obtain personal cheques from them.
Emma said, 'Straightaway I thought the e-mail wasn't right. There waspoor grammar and it didn't make any sense at all.'
The e-mail was from a man calling himself Steve Howe from Hull who worksfor a 'petroleum company' in Africa.
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