ESLinsider and Ian Leahy Blacklisted Warning!
TEFL/TESOL in Japan scam ESLinsider / ESLinsider review, submitted by Trusted TEFL Reviews.
TEFL/TESOL in Japan scam – Ian Leahy.
We don’t find any pleasure in blacklisting an Online TEFL/TESOL certification school, but ESLinsider/Ian Leahy has now reached that threshold.
ESLinsider is owned and run by Ian Leahy.
Ian Leahy is a US citizen, currently living in Fukuoka, Japan, and he is also currently being investigated by the Chinese authorities for fraud.
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We (Trusted TEFL Reviews) have had enough of the few rogue Online TEFL/TESOL companies that have been coordinating a sustained smear campaign against trustedteflreviews.com and managing to scam students by presenting themselves in a more professional light than they are.
You can read all about this scam in the following article:
Online TEFL/TESOL Course Review Scams in 2024
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A snippet from the (documented) accusation:
‘After some deliberation, we have decided to warn all the foreigners now teaching in China that if you sent an email to eslinsider.com or even visited their website more than once over the last 6 months, you will soon be investigated by the Chinese PSB as we recently found out in an unexpected interview we obtained with a veteran Captain who has worked more than 8 years with the PSB in a Tier 1 city of China.’
Further information can be read here:
ESLinsider/Ian Leahy TEFL/TESOL scam
Since earlier this year, ESLinsider has consistently tried to undermine the credibility of trustedteflreviews.com by posting misleading materials, on various online platforms.
Such platforms include the ESLinsider.com school website, Ian Leahy’s YouTube/Vimeo channel, Reddit.com, and Quora.com.
For the past 6 months, Ian Leahy has made claims that trustedteflreviews.com is owned and run by the following Online TEFL/TESOL certification programs:
CIEE TEFL
ICAL TEFL
Maximo Nivel TEFL
OISE University of Toronto TEFL
TEFL Online Pro
What do all 5 of these Online TEFL/TESOL certification programs have in common?
They have all featured in the top 5 ranked Online TEFL/TESOL certification schools list since the start of this year.
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trustedteflreviews.com was started by myself and a bunch of other English teachers, who were fed up with the amount of Online TEFL/TESOL misinformation published online.
If an Online TEFL/TESOL certification course program is ranked high in the list of certification programs, this means that they have received overwhelmingly positive (verified) customer feedback.
If an Online TEFL/TESOL certification course program is ranked low in the list of certification programs, this means that they have received overwhelmingly negative (verified) customer feedback.
ESLinsider is currently ranked bottom of the list and has featured in the bottom 5 for the past 9 months.
Instead of being focused on improving the course experience for his customers, Ian Leahy has chosen to lash out at trustedteflreviews.com with a barrage of misleading materials that he has published online.
Ian Leahy might sound convincing, he might even appear credible, but he is driven by one desire: the desire to work as little as possible whilst earning as much money as he possibly can to fuel his lifestyle.
He has been called out on this behavior before – type ESLinsider Asia Scam or Ian Leahy Asia Scam into Google.
Taking into account all of the above information, ESLinsider will now be listed on trustedteflreviews.com with a blacklisted warning. This will go into effect from today.
Mia Williams
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A wise decision to blacklist this complete fraud. People have been arrested because of this guy Ian Leahy. It’s ironic really that he sells his courses by claiming, ‘It was hard for me so I tried to make it easier and more fun for you’. It must have been hard as hell for him if he thinks getting people arrested in China makes it easier for them !!??!!
Looking at my traffic stats, the ip address belonging to Ian Leahy/ESLinsider has visited trustedteflreviews.com 33 times so far today. That is 33 missed opportunities to respond, transparently, regarding the (documented) accusation that Ian Leahy is a wanted criminal in China and is responsible for the arrests of North American citizens – teaching English in China – who were caught working with fake diplomas.
I also think that it is a little ironic that Ian Leahy likes to present himself as a pursuer of truth, a diamond in the rough, and yet it is Ian Leahy from ESLinsider who is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Mia Williams
I was going to take the Tefl course through the program Ian Leahy offers (ESLInsider) but then I read the reviews and saw how bitter he is to other Tefl programs. Really, the things he writes online about (mostly) MyTefl and Tefl Online Pro is shocking. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! I watched his latest YT vid, describing (in unnecessary detail) how he moved back to the US, to live with his parents. Looks like his one trick pony days are over. Thank the heavens I stumbled across this website before I made the grave mistake of sending Ian my money for his course fee. Keep up the good work Trusted Tefl Reviews!