RE: Your resume on Cathay Teacher, 2015-Jun-04

Dear applicant,
We are looking for teachers of ESL/English, French, Spanish, Japanese,
Mathematics, Social Studies, Physics, Government, Literature, Music,
History, Biology, Chemistry, Commerce, Account and Agric to work with us
in Istanbul,Turkey.
We will offer you a fully supported working experience and also strive to
make your experience in Turkey rewarding as well as satisfying.
Istanbul is a beautiful city in Turkey. Our School have a strong foreign
teacher team. It enjoys a great reputation both with students and our
teachers. The school encourages academic excellent and high social
standards, with British Curriculum.

The job details & benefits are as follows:
* 12 months contract(renewable),
* Working days : monday to friday [9:00am to 3:00pm] 12pm-1pm Break Time
(6hours daily)..
* Generally classes 1 hour equals 40 minutes to 50 minutes teaching per a
class.
* High School students (20 students/a class).
* Salary : $4750usd per month(tax free).
* Overtime : $50usd/an hour.
* Severance pay equal to 1 month salary.
* 30 days paid vacation per year.
* Free 2bed room furnished accommodation for teacher and dependents.
* Free medical insurance for teacher and dependents.
* Plus many other benefits for teacher and dependents.

AIRPORT PICK-UP
Once you arrive at airport, Our staff will be there to meet you and take
you to our school and Apartment.

Please send us your current resume/cv and photograph through email:
[email protected]

Sincerely,
Abdulsamet Dindar.
Head of School
Kabatas Erkek Lisesi
Çiragan Cad. No: 40 Ortaköy, Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.kabatasel.com
http://www.kabataserkeklisesi.k12.tr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabatas_Erkek_Lisesi

Kabatas Erkek Lisesi is one of the oldest and most prominent public high
school with Boarding located at Ortaköy in Istanbul, Turkey.




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I'm going to say stay away from that one. The site appears to be legit, but why would they want you to email them on a free e-mail? It looks to me that they're piggy-backing on a legitimate school. Googling the email address brought up two more free job-site posts with the exact same script:

https://www.google.com/search?q=abdulsa ... 8&oe=utf-8

[AlanJones]

In addition to that, why would a Turkish school be quoting salaries in USD and saying it is tax free. Looks to me like a scammer who doesn't have a clue what he is doing has taken one of the usual UAE employment scam scripts and just changed the country.

There are a few signs of West African writing in the message. I say it's a scam.

The IP address belongs to Cloudflare, which doesn't tell us much.

It is a scam. This is the reply I got:

This is to inform you that your are required to send the total sum of 1280EURO through western union money transfer to our registrar (Mr. Haruna Musa) for your employment registration at labour office to avoid replacement of your position because there are lots of Job applicants interested in this opportunity.
Please email us your payment receipt as soon as possible to prove that you are ready to work with our team.

This email is definitely scam. They have just sent me a contract and they offered 4800 USD and surprisingly they said they would provide me a visa even though l have mentioned that l am Turkish citizen. Plus In the contract the agent l am asked to contact is ARab not Turkish. They are expecting me to sign it and then they will ask me to pay some money which they expect in their dream lol

I agree.
This is the standard Dubai scam.
Upon contacting the school via their official email I never got a reply.
Those guys are wasting our time, NEVER give your personal data to an agent (ID scam) and NEVER pay anything for a job.

There is a school by this name, the contract seems pretty legit, BUT

red flag # 1 - they are using outlook and hotmail
red flag # 2 - no interview
red flag # 3 I was contacted by the 'principal' rather than HR
red flag # 4 I was instructed to use [email protected] for travel arrangements and visa
red flag # 5 - when I said I would make my own travel arrangements I was told "FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OR LOOK FOR ANOTHER JOB"

OK that seems pretty clear. Avoid this one it is BS

A scammer going by the name of IBRAHIM WATAH (from Sierra Leone in Africa) is posting ENGLISH TEACHING JOBS in TURKEY, across several websites, under the banner of this School. He claims to be a 'PRINCIPAL' but he is truly a scammer. Please do not send him any money. He will send you an email stating that, and I quote, "This is to notify you that Our school management has given you 5DAYS deadline to email us the photocopies of your signed contract agreement, work permit and air tickets so that we can legalize your employment with us at Labor office otherwise your employment will be Replaced with another serious applicants on our waiting list..
Please reply urgently with photocopies of your signed Contract agreement and also contact (USMAN TRAVEL SERVICES) for the processing of your work permit, air tickets and traveling documents through Email: [email protected]"
He uses a HOTMAIL account not to be tracked down.
https://www.facebook.com/ibrahim.yillah1?fref=ts

I got an email from Aybike garipinohlu with the exact same offer. However further along the lines I was told I needed to contact a super secret FBI agent to process some bogus anti terror certificate and the charge was $750 so I contacted my us consulate here and they refuted any such certificate exists and said it's bogus.

Please post the email addresses and any websites they are using . THX