Au Pairs is a wonderful program that puts out an advertisement for families that are in need of a domestic assistant, especially from a foreign country, that are welcome into the host family as a part of the family. The au pair is usually expected to share household responsibility, typically surrounding child care.
One can find several sites over the internet dedicating to the Au Pairs program. While this can help both Au Pairs and the host families to come across the suitable match, there is usually always a catch to a set-up as good as this.
The probability of coming across a fake au pair or a fake host family is usually very high. There are hordes of fake host families just waiting on the wing to either extract money from the opposite
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In case the scammer gets the email ID of the Au Pair, they might attempt to send repeated emails from several email ID’s made by a singular fake host family. The Au Pair is to know that emails from unknown email addresses should be a strict no- no.
• Some fake host families tend to connect the Au Pair to their lawyer or their estate agent. An au pair is to be cautious to know that despite how serious the situation seems, they are not to wire any money to the host family.
• The email addresses are also a very important way to be able to tell whether an au Pair host family is fake or real. Genuine host families or agencies usually use email Ids ending with ...@greataupair.com or ...@aupair.com while fake families always have email Ids ending with @yahoo.com or @gmail.com or any of the other generic email addresses.
• If an au Pair has found an advertisement by a host family over one of the social media sites like Facebook or Tinder, they should immediately check the profile of the person giving the ad. Generally, fake host families don’t have many people in their friend list or many pictures of
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In case a host family contacts about accommodation in a rented flat nearby, beware.
• Host families are usually very interested in the au Pair and if a host family does not show any particular interest in the general information about the au Pair, it is safe to assume that it is a fake host family.
• Sometimes the host families try to attract au pairs with an incredible sum of money as bait. An Au pair should always check the pocket money limitations of the program before moving forward to send a message to the host family.
• If a host family asks for any legal or financial information other than the bank statement, one can safely suspect it to be a fake host family.
• Fake host homes often ask for transactions through moneygram or western union because there is no way to track them. Beware of any family asking for transactions through these