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ESL Employment Job Scams Advice
The following are a list of
confirmed/known ESL Employment Scams from ESL Job Feed. Please contact us if you know of one that should
be added to the list:
| Engr.
Kennet Ricado - Email Scam Offering Employment in Lagos, Nigeria |
| This individual
spams resume posters across ESL job sites to offer employment as a
tutor for his family in Lagos, Nigeria. He claims to be employed by
Chevron Oil in Lagos, Nigeria. He will spam you with a job offer via
email: engr.ricado@live.com or engr.kennetricado@yahoo.com with a
contact number of +234 703 0831 621. If you reply, he will have you
contact his 'travel agent' (Mr. James Olise of Travels Skyway
Agency). |
| Maltepe
University - Prof. Koyen Kemal - Email Scam Offering Employment in
Istanbul, Turkey |
| This individual
spams resume posters across ESL job sites to offer employment at
Maltepe University without every interviewing you. It is very easy
to spot just by the amount of money (10,000 GBP) he offers. He will
spam you via email: maltepeuniversity14@gmail.com with a contract
and visa application. He then requests that you notify/contact his
'Turkish Immigration Attorney - Barrister Clark - at
wilfredclark_sine@yahoo.com. |
| UAE
Ministry of Labor - Emails and domains come from .tk and always
request money up front |
| This scam has been
around for a long time and continues to pop up in new guises using
various school names and websites. Regardless, the one thing that
remains the same is a request for money upfront to process
visa/travel. Watch for the domain names/email of these frauds. ".tk"
domain names are free sites registered out of the island of
Toukelau. The scammers will instantly offer employment, send you a
fraudulent contract from the Ministry of Labour, then request money
to process your nonexistent visa. |
| Private
Tutoring Services Offered with a 'Cashiers Check' Sent to Cover Your
Expenses |
| This routine is
always the same regardless of where they want you to come and tutor.
They give you the details, contact information, your pay terms. Then
they state they will send you a Cashiers Check which you must cash
right away, keeping some for yourself (based on the bogus job terms)
and send the rest to them via wire transfer/Western Union so they
can purchase your airline ticket. The problem is that the cashiers
check is always a fake (and usually a very good one) that will not
be discovered until after you have sent them money. Don't be fooled
by your bank accepting the Cashiers check because they are not
liable if it is fake...You are. |
| El
Liminor School or Limonar International School - Murcia or Valencia,
Spain |
| This is a real
school, and a credible one at that. However, the job adverts that
have been popping up on all sorts of websites are not from this
school. Someone is using the school's name to post phony jobs to get
people to send them money for their "visa requirements" BEWARE! Red
flags include saying you are hired without even having a phone
interview, and a 1 page contract. Real schools will want to have a
more in depth conversation before they hire you and will certainly
not send a 1 page contract. |
| La
Grange Kiddies School, Barcelona, Spain - Mr. David Jeffrey |
| This is an old one
that has been going around the ESL job boards for a while. Problem
is that some teachers say it is and some say it is not a scam.
Regardless, one thing remains the same...they ask you to send the
over $1,000 up front for visa/travel in order to 'secure' the
contract. Whether it is real or not, I would recommend NEVER to send
money to an employer for the 'promise of a job'. |
| UK
ESL Jobs from English Project Consultancy - Dr. Herbert Owens PhD /
Dr. Jonah Smith |
| This is an email
scam from a Dr. Jonah Smith (drjonah.smith@gmail.com) of English
Project Consulting Services claiming to offer tutoring services to
families in the UK as well as online translation services. They also
have a website at http://www.englishprojectcenter.com/ which makes
it look very official. Regardless, many teachers have reported being
spammed by this organization for employment with very attractive
terms. |
| Global
Education Services (ucivil@glosiness.com) - Possible Scam |
| This is a job
posting scam offering employment recruitment services through the UK
for teaching in Turkey, Russia and other central Asian countries.
Some teachers have claimed it is a scam and others not. It seems
that the factor is a fee request for guarantee of employment. It
would be up to the teacher to make the decision as to whether they
feel it is a scam or not. They also have a website which makes it
look official (www.glosiness.com). Proceed with extreme caution if
you are considering them |
| Family
Tutor/Teacher - Dr. George McGeorge - Devon, England -
geemcgeorge@googlemail.com |
This is another
email scam asking for you to help teach his wife (Vietnamese) and
child. He claims to be an American living abroad while offering 3,500
GBP to teach his family. This scam is actually quite detailed in that
he sends mutliple emails with pictures of his family and even his
"passport". Regardless, one thing remains the same...too good to be
true. |
| ESL
Asia / Jobs Japan / WorkinAsia / Vietnam ESL Placement Service /
ThaiJobPlacements / TaiwanESL |
| This is a scam run
by a Paul Adler from within Thailand who is actually in the ESL
industry but due to Thailand's lax law enforcement, he continues to
operate. He has used names such as Anthony Martin, Paul Adler, David
Smith, Paul Simpson, Michael Simpson, Malcolm MacDonald, and Michael
Simpsons. They will ask that you send all your original
documentation and a small processing fee (usally $50-$100) but the
job will never be forthcoming and your documents never returned. |
| Deutsche
Schule Malaga in Marbella, Spain - Andrew Coleman
(deutscheschule@codehot.co.uk) |
| This, like othters,
is an actual school but is being targeted by scammers who use the
school because their website may not be available in English,
thereby discouraging teachers from contacting the school directly.
Mr. Coleman is posing as the schools agent in the United Kingdom and
sending out scam email with a fake job offer at 1800 Euros. He will
then ask for a 'visa application fee'. When the actual school was
contacted, the headmaster said that he had never heard of Mr.
Coleman nor does Mr. Coleman represent his school. |
| Execs International School - Largo
Steffen - Madrid Spain - job_information@execs.com |
| This is your
typical scam of unsolicited email offering a job that they 'don't
want to advertise'. They don't initially ask for money but rather
just all your informaiton up front. It is easy to spot as a scam
because the school shows up nowhere in a basic search. When
receiving unsolicted email like this, it is always best to ask for
more information and documentation or just ignore the email. This
would be more of spam than scam but regardless, be aware. |
| Ombrosa International Bilingual
School - Luc Vezin and Dr. Michael Tindle - France |
| This is another
scam where the individuals use the name and information from a
legitimate school but then have email forwarded to a
hotmail/gmail/yahoo email address. Otherwise, it follows the typical
format of contacting you with a job offer and asking for your
information, followed by a very official looking contract and ending
with asking for money for payment of rent, travel arrangements or
payment of visa. |
| American School of Madrid & The
Schengen Visa Office - Spain (scammers posing as school) |
| They are scammmers
posing as the American School of Madrid and the The Schengen Visa
Office. The school is aware of this scam and has posted a warning on
their website. They will ask for your CV, cover letter and photo
after which they will forward a somewhat simplistic application.
After this, they will send you a too good to be true contract with
the director's signature and request that you forward copies of your
passport, bank statement and visa fees to the Schengen office. The
fraudulent emails used are: JOBS@ASMADRlD.ORG / INFO@ASMADRlD.ORG. IMPORANT:
Notice they use caps to disguise that they changed the 'i' in Madrid
to a lower case 'l'. They also use the following the Schengen
office: info@theschengenoffices.com / thescengenoffices@gmail.com. |
| Dubai British School -
(dubaibritish-school.com) - Dubai, UAE - Fake posing as the actual
school |
| The above school
will contact you via the principal of the 'school': Andy Homden
(principals@dubaibritish-school.com / Tel:00971501874916 ). In the
email, they will refer you to the Wikepedia listing for the school:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_British_School but they are a
scam. The actual Dubai British School is at
http://www.dubaibritishschool.ae/ and not at the fake URL as used in
their email (dubaibritish-school.com). They will provide you with a
contract that has generous terms then suggest that you contact the
UAE Ministry of Labor for your work visa at workvisa@elabour.net
which is also a fake. |
| Cheadle High School -
(www.cheadlehighschool.page.tl) - Staffordshire, UK- Fake posing as
the actual school |
| The above school
will post ads posing as the actual school and list their contact
email as info.school34@yahoo.co.uk and their website as
www.cheadlehighschool.page.tl. Why would a UK high school have a
website with a .tl (East Timor) domain name? The actual Cheadle High
School is at www.cheadle-high.staffs.sch.uk. Don't be fooled by this
obvious fake. |
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