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This company was listed on the website Zip Recruiter looking to hire nannies in North Vancouver, Coquitlam, Vancouver, and Toronto. I applied as I already work in childcare and was looking for another childcare position. The morning after my application they called me for a phone interview from a Toronto number. I spoke to a woman, she told me she was calling for a pre-screening interview and asked about my childcare experience, where I was born, my age, and if I was a student. She also asked if I had a criminal record check, I told her mine was over a year old so I would need a new one. She said I could get a new one for the final in-person interview and that she would email me to set up that interview.

Minutes later I received an email with a different phone number than the one I was just called by even though the caller had said she would be emailing me. The email said that I was hired and would have a profile put on the website shortly. The email also said the company was ScamPulse.com accredited and had a company address 538 W 24th street, Vancouver, BC M5R 1B9. I thought it was very strange they would hire me this quickly as I have been hired for this type of position before and when you work with kids you need to be thoroughly vetted. I looked up their business on the ScamPulse.com and saw that they were not accredited. They also had a separate business address listed 2417 89 Nelson St Vancouver, BC V6Z 0E7. I went to their website tinyhugs.net (the same website that their hiring email used) and saw a third company address listed 70 Yorkville Ave., Block #2,

Toronto, ONT, M5R 1B9, Email: [email protected] with a third phone number for their office different than the fourth phone number on the ScamPulse.com website.

I went to their Facebook page which has forty-odd reviews all written between August and September, all of the reviewers had accounts from random cities in the states, all with less than fifty (some even had zero) friends. All the reviews had weird English as if they were written by bots and there were no posts for the month of October. The Tiny Hugs ScamPulse.com profile was created in September as was the document they sent me regarding my nanny contractor terms yet most of the views were written a month before this before they appeared to even be a company.

On their website, there were only six women listed as nannies. A google image search of the photos of these women all traced back to stock photos most from the same stock photo site. My friend phoned the phone number listed on the site and a woman answered and said that she was no longer a nanny for the service but could pass her information on to some girls she knows she'd love. This number was supposed to be to the Tiny Hugs matching service that would give families the profile of three nannies that they could have phone interviews with.

Today November 3, 2020, one day after I received the phone interview I was offered a position for an Avanish family in North Vancouver who wanted an Indian live-out Nanny to care for their ten-month-old five days a week. This email was from the same email account with a different address and a fifth phone number 538 W 24th street, Vancouver, BC M5R 1B9 Canada.

I looked up this last name in North Vancouver's Yellow Pages and found a man who has no children that clearly would not be looking for a nanny. During my phone interview, I said I wanted a few hours as I was a student and that I couldn't start until next month and had never worked with children under two. Yet they gave me the listing for a position starting soon with an age group I had never worked with and far more hours than I requested.

Address break down:

The address on the website is for a vacant storefront in Toronto currently available for lease.

The address on the ScamPulse.com is for a unit in the apartment building 'The Arc' in Vancouver.

The address in the email they sent me is for an empty lot in Vancouver.

Conclusion: None of the three office addresses are currently owned by Tiny Hugs.

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