Lori Arnold Kate Grange Caregiver Scam--Arrangement for a caregiving position with HIGH pay Nationwide

My mother has been an Ocupational Therapy Assistant for over 30+ years. She recently decided to join the care.com app, seeking a position that would allow her to do in-home care for others. She received a text message (304) area code, from a woman named "Kate Grange." As my mom is telling me this over the phone, this immediately raised a red flag, as I helped my mother set up the profile on care.com and we did not list her cell phone number. The woman explained to my mom that her friend was seeking senior care for her mother in law and that if she was interested in the position, to email her.

My mother decided to email "Kates" friend, and she received an email back from a "Mrs Lori Arnold".  Lori explained to my mother that she was in the need of a senior care giver for her 72 year old mother in law. She explained that her mothers name was Tamara Arnold and that they would pay my mother $400 for 3 days out of the week, for 6 months. Inititally my mom thought this was too good to be true, but she emailed this "Lori" back with interest in the position and asked where her mother in law lived. After no response to the specific question about residence the first time, the lady continued to elaborate about family (as my mom requested) explaining that she was married for 8 years to a man named Arnold Chapman (residing in London with her), and then proceeded to ask my mother for her information as well. My mother (being new to this use of social media, and also a very trusting person) sent her information back to Lori including: Her name, email, phone number, address, etc. Lori emailed back, mentioning AFTER the fact that my mom had sent her this information, that her mother in law lived around the perimeter of our nearby town.

(side note: the mother-in-law's name was Tamara Arnold. One would think that the mother in law would have the same last name as the son/husband of 'Lori' (Chapman), not the daughter in law. ANOTHER red flag)

Lori told my mother that she would be arriving into town (flying in from London) around the middle of February and would send my mother a check for the $400 to secure her position, as well as extra in account that she would go grocery shopping ahead of time. I'm posting this information for people in the care-giving community to just be aware of this scammer(s). My mom is pretty new to the use of interenet to find jobs, and thankfully she shared al this information with me, and I did some searching on the internet of my own, only to come across similar stories on this webiste. I immediately notified my mom to drop all connection with these "Lori" and "Kate" figures, and hopefully this will warn others as well!