is this scam?

[dragonmast5]

Hello,

i have received some mails and i discovered that were scams but this one i dont know, please help me.







Our Findaupair.com Locator ID number: xxxx





To see our profile click HERE - (Au-pair Login required)





- or enter our Locator ID number here http://www.findaupair.com/search/search_for_family.asp





Our email address: xxxxxx@gmail.com





Dear aupair, I read your files and interested in you a lot. I want to know have your found your host family and are you available now? Our family comes from China, and we are a happy family, we have a boy, called xxxxx, he is four years old. He is very easygoing, he likes playing cars and he likes speaking English. We have an aupair before, and he gets along very well with that aupair. Now I want to invite a new aupair for him, playing with him and talking with him in English. Also, the aupair can learn Chinese and experience Chinese culture with us together. If we have activities, we will invite our aupair to join together. We will treat you as our important family member. Now there are so many families wanting have an aupair in China. So if you are still interested in our family or still want to be au aupair in China, tell me. We will do the further communication next. If so, can you tell me when will you be available and how long will you stay in China? Thank you in advance. Hope I can know more about you. Have a nice day. Look forward to hearing from you soon. Best regards from China!

[Chris Fuller]

Hello dragonmast5, and welcome to ScamWarners.

The profile at Find Au Pair, shows no typical signs of a scam, and their IP address at Find Au Pair is consistent with their location.

You will need to check that you are writing to the person who created that profile, however, and not to a scammer who is pretending to be that person. Maybe you can PM them at the Find Au Pair website?

If you know that you are corresponding with the real family, you will, of course, still want to proceed with all the normal cautions, and check that this is a family that you feel comfortable with. And, of course, never ever send any money on the instruction of any host family or on the instruction of anyone that they put you in contact with.

Please also check the procedure and regulations about becoming an au pair in China, by contacting the Chinese Embassy in your own country.

You were correct to include all details about this family in your post, as this was useful to enable research. But as there is no confirmation at the moment that this is a scam, I will now remove the family's personal/profile details, to protect their privacy.

[dragonmast5]

Hello again and thanks,

i answered the mail from the chinese family and now i received another email this one have documents attached that are: Aupair Life in Qingdao.pdf, Aupair Life in Guangzhou.pdf, Program city.pdf, Some Chinese Host Families Information(New).pdf , Aupair Application Form.doc

Dear Aupair:



Thank you for taking your time to read my letter. This is Eva, the au pair program director in China. I viewed your profile on Findaupair and interested in you a lot. J So I am writing you to briefly introduce the programs we work on and sincerely hope you can be an aupair in China. I hope I can help you.



Our organization is professional at au pair program, we are the member of IAPA, in the meantime, we are the cooperative agency of Go Aupair Agency in US. Importantly, we have several agencies in different cities, such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Qingdao and etc. From 2007, we began to send qualified and excellent Chinese au pairs to US and some Europe countries. From 2010, we began to accept foreign applicants to be au pairs in our host families here. Until now we have accepted some aupairs from England, Spain, Germany, Brazil, US, Sweden, Norway etc. Besides, our agency doesn’t charge any fee from our aupairs. Currently, so many host families in China want to have foreign au pairs, so now we need more foreign au pair applicants who adore Chinese culture, want to learn Chinese and interested in au pair program. Thus, I want to confirm with you if you want to be an aupair in China. Thank you in advance.



Following, please allow me to specifically introduce the requirement, duties and benefit for au pair applicants in China.



Au Pair in China

Do you want to be au pair in China? Do you want to join a Chinese family, experiencing the family life, staying with the Chinese children and studying Chinese cultures in the daily life? Being an au pair in China, you can have the chance to travel to many different places of interests, you can experience the traditional Chinese festivals, and you can join the Chinese family activities. We are an au pair company and have more experience in placing au pairs in the suitable host families.





Au Pair Applying Requirement:

1、Age from 18 to 30, the age can be properly relaxed if application’s English is excellent;

2、Graduate from high middle school at least, college education level is preferred;

3、Fluent in English;

4、Like children and enjoy getting along with children;

5、Responsibility and patience are necessaries;

6、Have experience in teaching, nursing or taking care of children is preferred;

7、Healthy;

8、Interested in Chinese and culture.



Au Pair Duties：



1、Taking care of host children and accompany them as their big sisters or brothers;

2、Teaching children English or other language and tutor them in study;

3、Doing some light housework;

4、The schedule is 25 or 30 hours per week;

5、Helping host family knowing west culture.



Au Pair Benefits and Service provided by our agency:



1、 Free lodging and boarding in host family;

2、 Having at least RMB 750, 1000 or 1200 per month as pocket money from host family which depends on your working hours;

3、 Flight reimbursement if successfully complete the program;

4、 Having paid holiday every 3 months;

5、 Visa invitation letter;

6、 Airport/Train Pick up;

7、 Assistance registering with local authorities;

8、 24/7 emergency call number;

9、 Assigned coordinator;

10、 Welcome package (map/metro card/SIM card) (if applicable);

11、 Arrival Orientation;

12、 Monthly Newsletter;

13、 Insurance (if I do not have my own);

14、 Language classes throughout my stay, besides of that, we will also provide our aupairs Chinese culture classes, such as calligraphy, cross-stitch, paper-cut, pottery, traditional Chinese painting, making dumpling and etc;

15、 Au Pair activities. We will provide various activities for our aupairs, such as traveling, climbing, swimming, BBQ beach party, CS, picking fruits in the farm and etc. All of these activities are free for our aupairs. Besides, when the festival is coming, we will also organize the activities or parties for our aupairs, such as Easter, Halloween, Thanks Giving Day, Black Friday, Christmas, and etc. All of these activities are free for our aupairs;

16、 The chance of exchanging families in the same city or other cities. If the aupairs can engage in the aupair program here for 6 months or more than 6 months, we can provide our aupairs the chance of exchanging families in the same city or other cities with aupairs’ agreement after they complete the written agreement with their previous host family.



Our agency really hope that our aupairs can have a great aupair life in China, so we will do our best, we have enough ability and experience to service our aupairs and guarantee our all aupairs’ rights and benefit here.



Your answer is being expected. We hope you can be still interested in being an aupair in China. If you want to be an aupair here, please complete Aupair Application Form which I have attached with this email and send me back via email, when I receive it and finish translating it into Chinese, I will recommend you to our families as soon as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries. Thanks for your interesting and support again.





Thanks for your interest again!





Attached 1: Pictures About Aupair Life In Qingdao

Attached 2: Pictures About Aupair Life In Guangzhou

Attached 3: Program City

Attached 4: Some Available Host Families’ Information

Attached 5: Aupair Application Form



Contact Information:



Email: aupair.cn.org@gmail.com



Skype: qdaupair



Tel: +86 15864715328



Program Director: Eva Liu







Look forward to hearing from you soon and wait for your application. J



Best regards!



Eva

[Chris Fuller]

Qingdao AuPair Cultural Exchange - with the email address aupair.cn.org@gmail.com - appears to be a genuine au pair agency. They state in their email above:

we are the member of IAPA

but I've been unable to confirm this. I can't find them on the list of IAPA (International Au Pair Association) members here:

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

For general information, you can read a guide to becoming an au pair in China here:

http://www.wikihow.com/Become-an-Au-Pair-in-China

and the Chinese Embassy in your country will be able to give you up-to-date details about requirements.