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Japan is one of the most enjoyable destinations for expat teachers. Pay is good, the food is great, and crime is almost non-existent. But job agents will cheat you if you are not alert. Read up here; https://reddit.com/r/teachinjapan . https://i1.wp.com/detechter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/japa...

China is the scam capital of the world and the fraudsters there make Nigerians look like boy scouts. Here are a handful of horror stories that are absolutely true that you can learn from https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/r/ChinaTeachers/comments/jhyc43/7_hor...

If you have something more than air between your ears you will NEVER use a job agent to find work in Asia, especially China. You go the DIY route and then you need not worry about getting ripped off, having your salary skimmed, or becoming a victim of identity theft. I suggest you spend a few minut...

Yesterday I was have some drinks with some expat colleagues at Lush in Wudaokou and I was shocked to hear one of them say that only after 3 years did he realize fake taxes were deducted from his pay. Realizing that this was over $25.000 that was swindled from him, I urged him to confront Principal i...

https://suits.com.ng/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/A-Wolf-in-sheep-clothing.jpg You can find all the known China scammers (about 2,200) at https://reddit.com/r/ChinaScamCentral BUT, the emphasis is on the word "KNOWN" because after the bums get exposed a few times, they start changing t...

If you don't take the time to read and amend your contract before you sign it, you have no right to bitch and moan later when you discover you weren't really hired as a full-time teacher and you are not going to collect your vacation pay, bonus money, and when you get run over by some scooter, you d...

I never left and lately I noticed a lot of new foreign faces who sneaked into China through Mongolia or Vietnam working with fake documents. Boy, when they get caught, are they in for a most unpleasant surprise!

You know, the irony of this huge problem is that new job applicants are all told "Don't trust the Chinese job agents" by mods on all the TEFL forums. But most of those mods are really undercover recruiters themselves who use sock puppet accounts to recruit newbies with DMs! In the end they...

https://media.smallbiztrends.com/2011/05/money-trap.jpg Before you waste your time and money check this out which was issued last year (2020) by the China Teachers Alliance https://www.docdroid.net/kRwv0oN/ctablacklist2020-pdf Most of these are online frauds that take your $$$$ and give you a certi...

China is now a mess with a sudden abundance of teachers (even those that are qualified!) looking for jobs that are suddenly gone. Lucky for me Taiwan and Korea are hiring for the fall semester https://www.tefl.net/elt/uncategorized/your-guide-to-the-taiwan-government-program-for-public-school-teache...

https://www.englishspectrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/L20130610.010150733250001i1.jpg It seems Korea is getting as corrupt and scammy as China! And since China just banned foreign teachers, the 30,000 expats in China who lost their jobs may now be looking at Korea and Japan so this blacklist c...

LoL! Great meme. Unfortunately this Laowai Career China Scam is like the cockroach that never dies. This Russian is no dummy and will keep disguising his various scams with many aliases and all those wonderful testimonials and reviews he buys every few months for a few thousand dollars. Hoepefully ...

https://static.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2015/06/2015-06-04-image-22.jpg Imagine getting half of your salary withheld by your school (if you are earning 20,000 rmb or more a month) and when you ask why, they show you some official document with a red government seal on it and they tell you...

https://www.goodfinancialcents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/how-to-break-bad-habits.jpg After 10 years as a TEFL teacher in Asia here are the most common 12 bad habits I see every day, and once teachers get into their comfort zone, they really become hard to break. So I suggest newbies make a rea...

Yeah, I can vividly recall my first week in China and how excited I was to see The Great Wall and all those friendly Chinese girls, and how cheap it was to go drinking. My excitement ended in 30 days when I got my first paycheck and it was 50% less than promised due to all sorts of bullshit deposits...

This woman is so bold and evil. Look at how she was taking 60% from teachers without never telling them. Her contract is outrageous. Her first scam was called China ESL and it was exposed nationwide by the China Scam Patrol in a joint investigation with the CFTU. Here is some of that old history be...