You cannot legally work on the above visa! For more than a decade over 20,000 expat foreign teachers were working illegally on tourist, student, and business visas. If caught the worse you could expect was a fine, a stern warning, and 30 days to get legal (obtain a Z work visa). Times have changed […]
Until recently expat executives in China only had to worry about meeting sales and production quotas, and perhaps the occasional identity theft scam. But these days, the risks have grown and victims are multiplying. Most are too embarrassed to admit they were snookered for $50,000 by a beautiful young Chinese girl in her 20s who […]
With each passing day, China is is being used more often as “bait” for over 300 known and growing “work abroad” scams. Thousands of desperate unemployed people from westerns economies that are gasping for air, as well as new university graduates with huge student loans to repay are falling for ads like this one… “English-Speaking […]
“Foreign teachers looking for a job in China these days often find a lot more than employment – grief. Sophisticated ID thieves have found a clever and easy way to defraud credit card companies and merchants in China using unwitting foreign English teachers as their “accomplices.” By posing as recruitment agents for some 19,000 schools […]
You’d have to be a blind man living in a Mongolian cave without internet access not to notice the obvious – China has become a haven for fraud, almost on the same level as Nigeria. However scams that originate from China are far more devious, sophisticated and costly. Whereas a Nigerian scam may cost a […]
Did you ever wonder how Chinese school principals who officially earn the equivalent of $8,000 – $10,000 per year can be driving very expensive Mercedes Benz, BMWs, Audis, Porsches, and Land Rover luxury cars? How can they afford to buy apartments costing more than 5 million yuan? Wonder no more… Actually explaining this mystery […]
Many lonely and single foreigners working far away from home here in China, too often get lonely and eventually cannot resist the singles ads on the big five Beijing and Shanghai internet portals which collectively have over 2,000 available women all claiming to be searching for true love and marriage on any given day. One […]
China Scam Patrol 