Au Pair for Elderly – Senior Caregiver
Sometimes it is not just families with children that are looking for an au pair, but also families with a grandpa or grandma that needs some help with daily tasks. Maybe it is only about cooking for an older person or not being alone all day, sometimes the caregiver needs to help this person with […]
AuPair Definition – What’s an Au Pair?
An au pair is a young person between the age of 17 and 30 years that goes to a foreign country to take care of children of a host family and gets free accommodation, full board and pocket money in exchange. An au pair stays with a family from 3 months to 2 years and […]
Scam and Fraud of au pairs and host families
Sometimes there are scam and fraud attempts on platforms like AuPair.com. Following you will find emails that have been sent and that are clearly from scammers. This is a letter from a scam/fraud profile: Scam Email address: frankcollinsfamily@gmail.com “Thanks so much for your interest in our family! We are a busy family consisting of mom (Becky), […]
Scam – British au pair girl
This is an email which was sent by an Au Pair scammer: From: Jean Addison <jeanaddisona@gmail.com To: xxx@gmail.com Subject: Re: New mail from aupair Jean Dear Family, Thanks for the mail,Hope all is well with you and the family.I have read and understood what is expected of an au pair in your family, Everything is […]
Scammers use the name of existing au pair agency
This is an email from a scammer who is using the name of a real Au Pair Agency: Recently we have learned that there are people pretending to be with InterExchange in an attempt to scam au pair candidates and get money from them. These scam operators are using the InterExchange name and fake host family information to seem like […]
Cameroon scam
We have been spammed by a couple of “au pairs”. Arin Bronwen (arinbronwen@gmail.com) and Belly Morg (lberth51@gmail.com) are sending emails that match the description on a scammers website that say they are currently working in orphanages in Cameroon but that they are from the UK. Their credentials are excellent and they seem to be great […]
Au Pair scam via SMS
Here you can find some letters from a fraud scam who contact Au Pairs via SMS: Au Pair Scam Contact: Gene Schwarzenegger GENESCHWARZ@OUTLOOK.COM tel:+447903536066 tel:18152169004 City : Southampton State : Hampshire, England Street Address Lodge Road Postal Code SO31 6RG Primary Telephone Number +1 918 962 0415 Secondary Telephone Number +44 20 8144 3974 Email […]
What is a host family?
Host family is a family that invites an au pair to stay with them. They let au pair to take care of children, and the au pair gets free accommodation, full board and pocket money in exchange. Host family needs to fulfil certain requirements to get a chance to invite an au pair from a […]
