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Fraud In Education - Keep Your Money Safe From Criminals

FRAUD used by SCHOOLSStudents want to would arrest the backpacker and fine or
attend high quality established schools. close the school for using an illegal
Schools will use fraud to attract worker. This scam would net the agent
students to their school or attempt to half a years regular office salary. With
appear more established to qualify for 5,000 small language schools - there were
government programs or association plenty of uninformed new victims. That is
membership. Schools that claim to have also why these agents they use a
specific affiliations, qualifications, different name or company name every six
assets, programs, staff or history that months.FRAUD used by STUDENTSThe most
are untrue are committing fraud. Schools prevalent fraud is to use the student
have also used fraudulent statistics to visa as an entry into Canada to work.
show jobs or salary upon graduation.A These fraud students take away jobs from
favorite trick is to name a language Canadian immigrant newcomers and jobs for
school as a "college". The word college Canadian students. If one really looked
in Canada is not an official use name and at the reasons for Canadian student,
anyone can name any building, house or youth and newcomer unemployment in Canada
barn as a college. Students should not - significant culprits are the employers
choose a school simply because it has who use illegal workers.Students have
college in the name. College in the name hired imposters to take tests for them,
does not mean anything in Canada.Another paid exam proctors to complete exams,
trick is to use the same name or almost bought essays from "experts" to submit as
identical name of a famous school in the their own and bribed school officials to
USA, UK, Asia, or Europe. If the famous change their marks in the official
school has not registered the name in records. The victims of this student
Canada then anyone else can register the fraud are all the honest hardworking
name without any affiliation with the students that were denied admission into
original school at all. Students should restricted programs because their marks
not pick a school because it has a famous were not as good as the fraud students
name in their country as it may have no who were admitted.FRAUD used by
affiliation at all and is designed to TEACHERSThe most used frauds are fake
trick students.Schools will appoint degrees, diplomas or fabricated resumes.
international agents or representatives Because the demand is high for qualified
to promote and market the school to ESL teachers overseas and these schools
potential students then not pay for the have few or no resources to check
advertising or not pay the agency fees. credentials many fakes go undetected.
Fraud schools will defraud agents by There have been estimates that 30% of the
stating students did not register.Some of teachers in Korea used fake degrees to
the schools are owned by agents. When an get jobs, and over 60 % of the teachers
independent agent presents the school in China have absolutely no
with a potential student that student qualifications or fake certificates.The
will be contacted by the head office most common "Teacher Fraud" is traveling
agency and re-registered in the name of to overseas countries on a visitor visa
that agent thus defrauding the original and then teaching illegally.FRAUD used by
hardworking agent.FRAUD used by Homestay ProvidersHomestay can be a
AGENTSStudents looking for foreign wonderful experience for international
schools and teachers looking for overseas students when the host family is honest,
employment use agents to simplify travel provides all the contracted services and
and registration arrangements that are quality time with the students.Fraud by
usually made in a foreign language.Agents homestay providers occurs when the family
have used a number of practices to cannot speak English or there is no food,
deceive students, teachers, schools and heat, water, toilets or electricity in
immigration officials.Agents committing the house. Some fraud homestay providers
fraud sell fake medical reports, fake jam 5 or 6 students into an illegal
police reports, fake bank deposits basement apartment and some homestay
records, fake identities and travel families work at their 3 jobs spending no
documents. These illegal practices time at home with the students. The
include access to student visas, illegal dangerous homestay providers are the sex
access to free medical services and predators looking for new victims.FRAUD
illegal jobs.There was a famous case in used by DEGREE MILLSA degree mill is any
Toronto where fraud agents just sat in a organization that issues fake
coffee shop outside a language school. credentials. There are fraud schools that
They approached Asian students and spoke offer degrees for life experience and
in Korean or Japanese only. They asked claim this is the equivalent of an
students if they had signed up for the academic degree from an accredited
ajoining language school. They were also university. Sorry but many believe this
asked if the students had used an agent. is fraud.The usual price for a fake
If the students had signed directly they degree or tesl certificate is $100 in
were made an offer that if they went back Asia. Many of the schools are attempting
to the school and placed the fraudsters to eliminate the frauds by asking for
name as agent they would get a 10 or 15% university telephone contacts or the
refund from the fraudsters.Agents have university transcript marks sent directly
promised teachers overseas jobs that do to the school. The more aggressive fraud
not exist. Agents have promised degree mills are now selling "the
facilities or accommodation or teaching package" degree, tesl, transcript and
resources that do not exist. Wages that hotline university contact # for the fake
are not paid, work visas that never university for $600. The frauds are
appear and host of other problems.One faster than the police.There are many ESL
agent operated a fake teachers teachers who have taken a 10 or maybe 20
"blacklist". He placed a few known hour program in a hotel room somewhere or
criminal schools then a few of the completed some internet reading program
legitimate schools on the list. This and suddenly claim to be a certified
agent was charging fees to the honest TESOL, TESL or TEFL teacher. Many of
schools to be removed.There were a couple these "certified teachers" have never
of agents that were promising backpackers been in a classroom. Sorry but many
jobs as English conversation teachers. believe that this is fraud.ESL in Canada
They told the backpackers that no visa or has conducted several tours of ESL
degree was required. They told the schools across Canada and the USA. Our
English school that they had a teacher fieldwork to collect information for the
with a work visa, degree and plane webpage directory has uncovered frauds,
expenses. The school usually paid the misrepresentations and some very bad
agent upfront for the plane ticket, situations.For more info: or is a
recruiting fee and expenses. On the teacher with 31 years teaching experience
second or third day the school would in colleges, high schools, middle
realize the "teacher" was not suitable schools, ESL language schools in Canada,
and try to call the agent. The agent USA, Mexico, China and Korea.
would call his friend in immigration who




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