Beware of esltiger.com – esltiger.com are spammers!

[ESLschool]

As the HR for a language school, I foolishly joined ESLtiger.com to post a job ad. Since that, I have received over a dozen spam emails from ESLtiger.com in Chinese saying “Teacher List” and that is in only 2 days!!! All emails are sent through Tom.com (they use at least 10 different accounts) but reference “ESLtiger.com” as the sender name.

THINK TWICE BEFORE JOINING THAT SITE! They will just use your email to send unsolicited spam. In addition, they seem to be some sort of Chinese educational organization that is probably using the site for data mining (https://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=esltiger.com).

The following are the emails they use to send spam:
ESLTiger.com [yuanjoan06@sina.com]
ESLTiger.com [joanqiong35@tom.com]
ESLTiger.com [joanwill52@tom.com]
ESLTiger.com [jiangjoan05@sina.com]
ESLTiger.com [tomjohn32@tom.com]
ESLTiger.com [tomjoan02@tom.com]
ESLTiger.com [krainlee23@tom.com]
ESLTiger.com [joanwill52@tom.com]
ESLTiger.com [lisahe325@tom.com]

[Cossette]

Thank you for informing the public.

[ESLschool]

No problem...As the HR for a language company, I deal with many sites and am always exasperated by the machinations of some.

Another on my "watch out for list" is SeriousTeachers.com. When I posted an ad on their site, I was also receiving emails about ALL the teachers interested in my job. Funny thing though...when I contacted the teachers, they had no idea what I wanted nor who I was. In addition, SeriousTeachers.com only provides a free service which then switches to a paid service. I think they bait schools with their resume database and then charge money. Regardless, the teachers who "express their interest" are just the victims of an automated spamming system.

Some sites that I have found to be good for posting ESL/EFL resumes and jobs, not trying to scam and getting relevant responses are (obviously aside from this site which I already use!):

www.totalesl.com Really Good site! I like this one because it is reliable for a small site (been online for 5 years) and has great search features to find the really relevant teacher or job..and it is free...always a plus for me :-D
www.tesall.com Great site! Also free and chances of getting syndicated through esljobfeed.com (part of TESall.com) are cool because it goes across 29 other sites. Just need to get on that list! :-)
www.eslteachersboard.com Good...also free and easy to post but my ads don't really stand out. Search features are limited also but still a good site.
www.eslcafe.com Still the #1 big daddy of ESL with a guaranteed response but my budget is tight...I use him for the hard to find physics teacher or when I have some extra HR money :-P

Just my two cents....again. :-)