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[bearcanada]

Greetings and another warning, this time about a group called Huali Education. They seem to operate two scam websites as follows:

http://www.jiangsuesl.com and http://newedu.net

These people appear to be too clever by half. They post fake resumes (or resumes "stolen" from teachers) onto ESL sites everywhere, but WITH THEIR OWN EMAIL ADDRESS so that Chinese schools unknowingly write to Huali thinking they are responding to the owner of the resume. Huali therefore knows they are recruiting and probably contacts them to offer these teachers for 'sale'.

I have confirmation they post such fake resumes on this website (Dave's ESL Cafe), for example. They also post job offers under many aliases.

In some cases they apparently post job offers while pretending to be tefl.com but again they add their own email address so teachers who reply mistakenly believe they are writing to tefl.com.

Your safety would be to contact people like tefl.com independently, to confirm that the posting is really theirs and that you have in fact been corresponding with them and not with a con artist. If you supply tefl with the email address to which you replied, they can tell you if it is one of theirs.

Also note that there is a scam website at tefl.cc (reg'd in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands), that tries to confuse you with the legitimate site of tefl.com.

You can check some useful scam-avoidance information on my website at
http://www.bearcanada.com/esl/scam.html
Or send me an email to [email protected]

Cheers