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First came the crack down on fake teachers with fake diplomas (2018). Then in 2020 COVID hit while half of the Laowai teachers were back home for the Christmas holidays and locked out of China. Then in 2021 all the foreign-owned chains were booted out of China, and now the mass lock-downs and COVID ...

He has been black-listed for the last six months by CFTU and China Scam Patrol and apparently he is using aliases as well. I see a lot of people found out the hard way.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBSmSRTbbOw/VtalgC_8WUI/AAAAAAAACgY/Mu_KUkqN5oc/s1600/don%2527t%2Bbe%2Ban%2Bidiot.jpg China is a minefield for foreign teachers and you can get ripped off before you even get there. These two links show you how; https://chinascamwatch.wordpress.com and https://www.docdroi...

I am not surprised after 10 years of using fake teachers to defraud all the parents of China. I am glad to see all fraud being vacuumed away so Chinese kids can get a real education.

You know these guys git caught paying their staff and teacher aides and extra $50 bucks a week to brigade all the subs on reddit that outed their scammy ways and posting a bunch of fake reviews that are so damn obvious as you can see here; https://abroadreviews.com/search/node/Best%20learning Anythi...

The Russian owner of these super scams is quite famous in Beijing and was recently coronated at https:/reddit.com/r/TEFLscams

I knew they were scammers the very first time they called me and said they had reviewed my resume and I qualified for three different jobs yet "Martin" could not tell me the salaries offered nor what was the closest subway station was for any of the employers. Furthermore, I never send the...

TEFL careers abroad can be lot of fun - even a great adventure - if you can avoid the minefield of scams imo

https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/minion-what-gif-11.gif TEFL teachers in Asia are so used to fraud and scams that they think nobody will care very much if they fudge their resumes. NOT! The China Teachers Alliance, China Scam Patrol and CFTU have received copies of a TEFL blacklist s...

Yeah they got me too. I am going to confront my principal tomorrow since once the school year finishes next month I'll be screwed. Talk about great timing! If i didn't see this post I would have lost 50,000 rmb and not even know it!

May I ask why you don't contact hagwons and universities directly with your resume? Your experience and degree will buy you a lot of consideration but if I were you, I would not tell them you are already in Korea or they will low-ball on the salary.

I been reading at two other TEFL forums I also visit and saw a quote from Steve Jobs that caught my attention "There are two ways to learn in this world. We either learn from the mistakes of others, or we learn the hard and costly way" So far, from what I see in China, most expats learn th...

There is a danger in just feeding students COVID info that comes only from government sources in which the kids essentially become sponges that absorb government propaganda. I teach secondary school teachers and two high school classes and I encourage them to not only learn COVID terminology in Engl...

I was just reading about this company at https://reddit.com/r/ChinaTeachers and found this post that I think explains why there are so many victims... "Many TEFL teacher job applicants are surprised to see this fairly new company on all the TEFL blacklists so quick, because they see a beautifu...

It is a fun profession - Welcome! I suggest you spend an hour and visit this sub of really good TEFL tips that will prevent a lot of unpleasant surprises for you https://reddit.com/r/TEFL_tips_traps_scams. Unfortunately I found that link a little late and got exploited. Good luck!

From what I can see, they stopped doing this sneaky shit since COVID closed the borders. I guess they cannot afford to lose any more expat teachers right now. I hope they don't start this crap again after the borders reopen.

Maybe it is just safer to assume they are all crooked and not waste our time looking for that "needle in a haystack" - the handful in a thousand that might be honest. I am just gonn find my own jobs directly from now on.

The more I really think about it, I guess we really should not have very high expectations of anything in China - especially honesty. I read a while ago that more than 75% of the IP cases in the WTO and World Court involve the Chinese. If they drop these high salaries when they open up for the Olymp...

This report is a bit scary and it makes sense to me now that people are struggling from the lock down and getting desperate for money... https://www.reddit.com/r/ChinaScamPatro ... send_your/

Yeah okay, BUT do you think the big bucks will last or drop like a rock when the borders open back when the Olympic roll around. This could just be a temporary thing you know - done out neccesity. I know one thing for sure, the Chinese never pay a nickel more than they have to.