Robert Stuart - [email protected]

This is not a genuine au pair opportunity, it is a scam! You can find exactly the same scam here:

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=56129&p=131611

Subject: We need your service.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

Dear Aupair,

It’s my pleasure to introduce my humble family to you. We are Canadian family currently living and working in London, UK on job posting.

My wife (Maria), daughter (Edna) and I would like to extend our warmest welcome to you as our potential aupair. We are happy to contact you regarding to this job offer to take care of our daughter (Edna).

After going through your profile on easyaupair.com, we feel that you are the right candidate for this position. We shall need you to take good care of our daughter and treat her like your own blood and little sister.

Do write back to us via: [email protected] if you are interested in our job offer in other for us to discus more on the details. We shall be expecting to your soonest reply.


We are going to try as much as possible to make this experience worthwhile. Wishing you and your family a wonderful day ahead.

Sincerely,
Robert Stuart.

I have received the same letter as you all, coming from a fake adress in Westminster, London.

It seems that one of these... I don't really know how to name them, is registered in www.easyaupair.com. They have created a fake e-mail for that webpage ([email protected] while the real one is [email protected]) and they use that to contact us.

Loads of fake families are trying to contact me using that webpage (Gitte Knudsen, Katie Whitehouse, Robert Stuart... all well known in this page), and they all say that they used that webpage.

I have written aroun 12 letters in the 'Contact us' space in www.easyaupair.com and they haven't neither answered me or tried to solve it, and I'm fed of them.
So my advice to you is to erase your profile from that webpage (as I am doing right now) and to tell your friends or people you know to erase theirs too. I'm planning to start I campaigne on my own to shut this page down, as I'm sick of not being help and feeling without protection.

I have receive two more now, from 2 'people' called Dr. Sand Green and Robert Dale... same story, I'm afraid.
If you want to see my letters, don't hesitate in contact me, an

Yes, sometimes a scammer will send an email pretending that it has been sent by EasyAuPair, recommending the family. You can see an example here:

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=53575

This type of email has not been sent by EasyAuPair; it has been sent by the scammer himself.

EasyAuPair is a legitimate website, but like all au pair websites where host families can register their own profiles, many scammers also register their fake profiles there. They often pay for full membership of the site, so that they can access au pairs' email addresses, and they usually collect as many email addresses as they can during their first hours of registration - so that even if the website detects that they are scammers, and removes their profiles, they still have the email addresses of au pairs to contact.

When they want to find more au pairs to send scam mails to, they simply register a new fake profile, using a new fake name, and a new email address.

The best defence against scams is to learn (1) How to recognise them; and (2) The real regulations and procedures for becoming an au pair in your chosen country.

You can read tips about recognising au pair scams here:

Overview of Au Pair Scams

And there is an overview of the Au Pair Program for the most popular countries here:

Info Host Countries

Alternatively, you may prefer to use an agency which is a member of the International Au Pair Association (IAPA) or, for UK positions only, an agency which is a member of the British Au Pairs Agencies Association (BAPAA). These agencies have a code of conduct which offers more protection to au pairs. You can find a list of IAPA member agencies in your country, or in the country you hope to travel to, here:

http://www.iapa.org/members/member-list/

(Click on 'Alphabetical by Country' for the full list.)

And a list of BAPAA member agencies here:

http://www.bapaa.org.uk/directory.asp?page=20

Some of these agencies will charge a registration or placement fee to au pairs; others will charge a fee to the host families only.

This is a mail I received from Robert Stuart. Can someone tell exactly what is going on here. I'll also like to know where to go to to get a Au pair job. Thanks

Hello,

How are you doing today? Hope that you had a wonderful day over there today.

I little introduction about my family, we are an Canadian family currently living in London, UK on job posting. I work with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). I am currently in the UK on course with the MI5 (Security Service in UK). My wife Maria is a professional midwife in one of the lending Government owned hospital here in the UK.

We would like you to start work with us immediate or alternatively, you can still indicate to us when you would like to start work with my family.

We hereby demand your services in taking good care of our daughter Edna and seeing to her needs at home or the playing field/park. Edna (3) is a cool girl and she enjoys playing and chocolates. Her favorite color is Yellow and Green. We would be very grateful if you take good care of her and treat her like your own little sister or daughter.

We would be offering a monthly salary of 1,500GBP and 120GBP weekly for your pocket money. You would be required to work for about 25-30hour per week. We shall provide you with a live-in accommodation with a laptop computer and internet connection for your use during your stay with my family.

To enable us prepare a bidding contract to your services to our home, we would need you to send us the follow data below to enable our attorney to process a Contract for us:

FULL NAMES:

SEX:

AGE:

ADDRESS:

NATIONALITY:

PHONE NUMBERS:

RELIGION:

PARENTS OR NEXT OF KIN CONTACT NUMBER AND ADDRESS:


Alternatively, you can as well send us your CV or Resume for our review. Upon the receipt of the above data, then our attorney will proceed in the preparation of your Contract with my family. We would expect to read from you soon.

Wishing you a wonderful day.

Best Wishes,
Robert Stuart.
14 Horseferry Road, Westminster,
LONDON, SW1P 2AX
England, UK.

It is a scam.

The person writing to you is African, not Canadian. He does not live in UK, and there is no job.

You would soon be contacted by his attorney, who is not an attorney at all, but just the scammer playing another part . The fake attorney will send you a contract (which is copied from a real contract so it might look authentic.)
You would be told that you have to send money for fees for your visa or other travel documents. That money is what the scammer is after. Any money you send will be picked up and forwarded to the scammer, and you will find yourself with no money and no job.

As Chris has indicated in her post below, if you wish to find an au pair position yourself, it is very important that you become familiar with the regulations, because you will be approached by a very large number of scammers. Using a legitimate agency is another option for finding a job.