All kinds of scams when looking for tutors that parents and students looking for work need to know

Both parents and students looking for tutoring jobs have been scammed

In the group of Ho Chi Minh City Tutoring Community, there are regularly several posts every day warning about the sophisticated scams of bad groups, specializing in all kinds of scams that make many people lose money unjustly. Usually, when parents need to find a tutor, they will go through a brokerage center to connect directly with the teacher. The Tutoring Center as a brokerage firm will be responsible for finding the request and negotiating the fee.

Most tutoring centers do not charge parents, but mainly from tutors who receive classes, from 20% to 40% of the first month’s salary. But also many ghost centers have outlined enough tricks, creating confidence to ask parents to pay a deposit in advance for the reason of ensuring classes for tutors. These subjects commit that when the tutor successfully accepts the class, they will refund the initial fee and are ready to change a new tutor if parents are not satisfied with the quality.

This amount is usually not large, only a few hundred thousand, so many parents did not hesitate to transfer the deposit to find a suitable tutor for their child. However, as soon as the goal is achieved, the fake parties immediately block contact, disappearing on social networks.

In addition to parents, students and teachers who need to find a tutoring job are also tricked with the same trick. The purpose of collecting the class fee is to avoid the situation that many people when receiving the class finish the initial brokerage fee. But that is only safe for a reputable tutoring center that has a contract with clear binding terms. Otherwise, the victim will continue to fall into the never-ending deposit fraud trap.

The “ghost” center, “ghost” class, “ghost” parents appear a lot to cheat the deposit to receive the class.

Another form of scam that students need to be aware of is postings that transfer classes they are teaching. Using the excuse of being busy with work, they should change classes with a low fee, these classes are described by many information such as high teaching fees, good students who are easy to teach, happy parents, fair pay, often with extra bonuses at the end of the month. ..vvv

Poor quality tutor, irresponsible center

In addition to cheeky scams, poor quality, unprofessional tutors and irresponsible centers when resolving disputes are also problems that many parents face. Many people have been “unmasked” for falsifying degrees and papers in order to receive classes and ask parents to pay high salaries.

After a while, teaching, and discovering that their children not only did not make progress but their academic results also decreased, many new parents went to find out the reason. In addition, many tutors are often not on time, teach wrong knowledge and behave inappropriately, affecting children’s cognition.

When having problems with tutors, many parents contact the center to clarify the responsibilities of the parties, but many centers have an attitude of pushing and denying involvement because the initial costs have been completed. When they could not find a common voice, parents and tutors raised each other to argue on social networks to ask the community to judge right and wrong.

Signs to identify tutoring centers, scammers impersonating tutors

Although the tuition fee is very high, many tutoring centers provide very sketchy information about the class, most of the classes received are canceled or cannot be contacted with the student’s family. The common feature of the scam centers is that they do not have a specific address, the office is sketchy, but facebook is heavily advertised. Most of the comments that leave compliments are decoys from the center to build trust for those in need.

To attract tutors, these centers offer classes with very high tuition fees, and the requirements are too simple. If you want to choose any class, you don’t need to schedule an appointment to the center. No need to provide student card information, professional qualifications, proof of background…

In addition, although they charge a very high fee to receive classes, these centers provide very sketchy information about classes, most of the classes received are canceled or cannot be contacted with their families. born. In the case of working with a reputable center, also carefully read the terms of the tutoring contract before agreeing to accept the class. Parents need to go directly to the center instead of just communicating through social networks to avoid the risk of damage, time and effort.