We have just been alerted to this thread. Worldteachers Recruitment Limited is a UK based Employment Agency. We help hundreds of teachers find jobs in various countries of the world. We never charge a teacher a fee. It is illegal in the UK to do that and I would advise job seekers to never pay an agency a fee. We cover our costs by charging the employer a fee. Please also pay close attention to the specific URL in email addresses and web addresses. Our URL is worldteachers.net. Unfortunately, we are a victim of this scam also, as the scammers used a very similar URL. It is a great shame that we are not able to help people because they think when we are contacting them about an opportunity, they think it's a scam as we are trying to help people find a great new job. If you visit our website at www.worldteachers.net you will see that we are advertising real jobs and are a real genuine company. Please do keep safe on-line but remember there are good people out there who can help you - and not charge you money!

Dear All,

Thank you for sharing your experiences.Although, it's never fun to have a fast one pulled over us.For what it's worth your posts help to keep others informed and aware of scammers ..I just dodged a bullet.

Thanks again!

Hello all,
thanks for sharing your experiences in here, it helped me a lot to know about them. I have applied a teaching position through guardian jobs and after a few days I received that email
Dear Ilhanlatif,

Thank you for responding to our advert.

We are very happy to progress your application but will require some extra information for this school. We have also asked some additional questions to see if you are interested in looking at any other opportunities, perhaps in other locations. This helps us make sure we are helping you find the most suitable roles.

1. What is your full name (As per your Passport)
2. What is your gender? (Some schools may only be able to recruit male or female teachers) MALE or FEMALE
3. What is your date of birth? (Some locations have minimum and maximum age restrictions for visas)
4. What is your nationality?
5. What city are you currently living in?
6. We are looking for teachers in the following locations, please state YES or NO if also interested in these locations:
Scotland – YES or NO
Singapore – YES or NO
Kenya – YES or NO
Abu Dhabi – YES or NO
Dubai – YES or NO
Doha, Qatar – YES or NO
Bahrain – YES or NO
Muscat – YES or NO
Kuwait – YES or NO
Jeddah or Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – YES or NO
Mongolia – YES or NO
Macau near Hong Kong – YES or NO
Moscow – YES or NO
New Cairo, Egypt- YES or NO
Where else are you interested in:
7. Married: I am / am not married. My partner/spouse works as a XXX and will/will not accompany me
8. I have xx children. Their ages are …
9. My NET monthly salary is £ xx. My minimum NET monthly in the new location is £ XX
10. How soon are you able to start a new job?
11. What would be your ideal teaching role – i.e. year group, level, subject?
12. What reasons do you have for making this move? e.g. keen to go overseas, already have a friend in XX country
13. What is your mobile number including country code?
14. What is your Skype ID? (For interviews)

We look forward to your reply and to helping you further.

Kind regards

Emma Kerr

UK HQ: Worldteachers, Homelea, Faith Avenue, Quarrier’s Village, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK. PA11 3TF

e: emma@worldteachers.net | t: + 44 (0) 1505 851270 |

www.worldteachers.net | skype:emmaworldteachers

it has phone number, email but i am 100% sure that it is scam, I did respond with the information she is asking for, lets see whats gonna happen!

Recently, I received a strange email with the following content:

Dear,
we are a polar bear family and would like to hire you as an English teacher for our kid as we are considering to move from Greenland to Canada where English is required for legal immigration. We will need you not only for teaching English but also for help with our passport that we expect to be issued by you.
We offer homestay in our cave, sharing of food, and 10 millions of false USD month if you agree to take the job.
Let us know if you agree.
With many kisses of love,
the Polar Bear Mom

I replied:

Dear Polar bears or whoever you are,
I am too told to travel an therefore cannot take the job. I suggest you ask Bill Clinton, George W. Bush or even Donald Trump.
All of them are pretty good teachers, and I can highly recommend them.
Regards,
T. T.

LOL

It also seems like they use now a different website and names for contacting people but the content on the website is the same. It's all scam.

I have the same emails, same job title, same "school" though I can't find anything on it. And my last update came today. Sounds like we have a problem

Hi There,

I received the same information as many of you...

Because I am a skeptical person by nature, I kept asking her (Estelle Fournier) questions regarding the so called offer and informed her that i may not be able to pay the fee she replied:

"Dear Ms. Victoriya,

I have checked into things for you again and unfortunately this particular
opening in Dubai is no longer available. Such things can change quickly in
the human resource industry as you can imagine.

Usually the Placement is free of any charge and a Fee is only required for
very few locations. With your permission we would forward your Application
to some other schools as well. You can get back to me with a few more
reference numbers (no more than three) of other openings and I will forward
these schools a copy of your Application as well.

We will let you know as soon as something that matches your qualifications
pops up.

Kind Regards,

Estelle Fournier

-Support Team-
Teach The World"

THIS IS A SCAM!!! They do not have a phone number and that was my first suspicion. The second suspicion was due to the fact that i didn't have to conduct an interview. She claims in other emails that I had the job, then says it wasn't guaranteed. Please beware and thank you to everyone who posted! it has saved alot of us from making a stupid mistake!

I also got a proposal for Sweden. if you type in http://www.global-teachers.org/ you get the same site...
I´m suspicious

Clearly this is a scam. NEVER EVER PAY MONEY FOR A TEFL JOB OFFER: this comes from 20 years experience in tefl world.

I got the same email saying a school in Italy wanted to hire me for 6500 Euro a month (WOW!!). The horrible grammar, too-good-to-be-true feel of it all, and this very forum convinced me that it was a scam, however. I replied to them with a link to this discussion forum. Let's see what happens next, if anything...

Maddie,

I'm still in contact with them. I haven't started teaching yet; however I keep getting emails from them about the position and how the process is moving along.

They haven't asked me any personal security information (passport #, SIN #).

I know people that work for the ministry on education in Iceland, so they are also tracking them to make sure that it is legit.

I'll keep you posted.

Hey Meliisa,
I was wondering how everything turned out for you after paying the fee? Did everything go as planned or was it a scam?
Thanks,
Maddie

Did you do a check on whois.com for world-teachers.com? I looked at the URL registration and found it was created in December of 2014. It is not an established site and I would do a little more digging if I was you. Also did you trace the email to see where it was from? you can do that by following the steps at http://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email?gclid=CLuVl5vBmbcCFUFxQgodCVkAmQ. These two quick free that I use ways to check on a company.

I also Googled world-teachers.com and they don't have any page ranking or backlinks, but if they are new that is common. However, when I Googled global-teachers.com, that came up on with a page that has several unrelated links and according to whois, it has a reseller listed. If you are getting emails with both websites on the email I personally would stay away.

Hope this helps
Robert

Hey! That's great info!
Thanks!

I also got emailed from Claudia Hoops. Just looking at the websites gives my the hunch it's a scam. I will e-mail her and see if she replies. I hope no one pays money until they get a actual job!

Dear Vince,
I too was apparently accepted at a location of my preference and asked to pay a placement fee which I did. They did get back to me by sending me a questionnaire from the school (which I can't find anywhere online) and I am waiting for their reply. I really hope this doesn't turn out to be a scam. I'll let you know where things go from here. If you in turn find out anything, please let me know.

Regards,
Tina

I got accepted for a position and was then told to pay the placement fee. But instead I decided to start asking questions about the position - what type of school it is, if there are resources to teach available, if the position is guaranteed etc. Thereafter I suddenly received a mail saying that unfortunately the position is no lonnger available (things changed quite quickly in 2 days!) but they will send my details to other schools. They also reply throughout the day (at random times but from the same name making me think that they have different people handling the e-mail address but using the same name which is a bit suspicious). I will be careful with this placement agency. Please let me know if anyone has had an actual placement through world-teachers.com or global-teachers.org (seems like it is the same agency that changed their web address). My e-mail adress is retiefchantelletrou@gmail.com.

I would like to know the same thing please. Got an acceptance email for a post in Dubai and not willing to pay for any package until I know for sure.

Many thanks

Hi
Just wondering if you have heard anything or done anything since you posted this. I have recently received a very similar message and am unsure if the service is genuine or not.
My e-mail address is davidhobbs16@yahoo.com
Many thanks in advance for your reply.
David