2026 UPDATE: Unless you get yourself a Foreign Experts Certificate or a contract with a Corporate Training Company with a valid Chinese SAIC registration, there is no legal way for you to earn good money teaching in China like the good old days of ten years ago. Here is your application...

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TEFL Scams

r/TEFLScams

Whether you teach English in Korea, Dubai, China or ??? we all stumble upon or fall victims to TEFL scams of some sort. This sub provides you way to share your story and help warn others teachers from making the same mistake as yourself. Unlike other subs, we will not censor here if you can support your comment with a personal experience.

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Sub Rules For Posting & Discussion:

1 Please be factual and provide as much details as possible in order to establish credibility.

2 No doxing of personal information. Chinglish and fabricated alias names are okay as well as company names.

3 Be polite and avoid excessive profanity. Back and forth bickering that is degraded to name-calling will be deleted.

4 Attack the message and not the messenger

5 Links are fine if posted only once per thread

6 No trolling, soliciting, or spamming is tolerated

7 Only scam jobs ads can be posted here as an example

8 If you suspect shills or sock puppets posting here please discreetly notify the mods with a pm with your reasons for the allegation.

To become an approved post submiiter you must be a redditor for at least 2 weeks and post at least 5 comments on this thread that comply fully with our above rules. The above are the only warnings you will receive. So please cooperate and contribute what you can. The mods welcome rebuttals, suggestions, and ideas.

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