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Online TEFL/TESOL courses can be either ‘Unaccredited’, ‘Accredited’, or ‘Fully Accredited’.

‘Fully Accredited’ is the highest form of accreditation. A TEFL/TESOL certificate from a fully accredited program equates to the worldwide recognition of the certification and access to the best-paid teaching jobs.

A TEFL/TESOL certificate from an ‘Accredited’ program won’t necessarily be internationally recognized and will place you at a significant disadvantage when applying for teaching English jobs when you are up against applicants with fully accredited certificates.

‘Unaccredited’ TEFL/TESOL certificates are sometimes accepted by employers, but your employment options are dramatically reduced and the schools that will employ you tend to have poor reputations.

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1. tefl online pro | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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2. OISE University of Toronto TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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3. CIEE TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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4. Maximo Nivel TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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5. Vantage TEFL Certification | Accredited.

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6. ICAL TEFL | Unaccredited.

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7. The TEFL Institute of Ireland | Accredited.

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8. Global English | Accredited.

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9. INTESOL Worldwide | Accredited.

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10. Bridge TEFL | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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11. International TEFL Academy | Accredited.

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12. The TEFL Org | Accredited.

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13. ITTO | Accredited.

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14. Let’s TEFL | Accredited.

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15. TEFL Educator/TEFL Boot Camp | Accredited.

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16. Oxford Seminars | Accredited.

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17. Premier TEFL | Accredited.

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18. i-to-i TEFL/Love TEFL | Accredited.

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19. TEFL Training College | Accredited.

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20. Global Language Training | Accredited.

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22. UKtefl | Accredited.

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23. Teflen | Unaccredited.

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24. CCELT | Unaccredited.

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25. Enjoy TEFL | Accredited.

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26. Teacher Link TEFL | Unaccredited.

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27. TEFL Fullcircle | Accredited.

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28. UNI-Prep | Accredited.

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29. TEFL Iberia | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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30. TEFL Express | Accredited.

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31. TEFL Graduate | Unaccredited.

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32. The Course Mix | Accredited.

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33. TEFL Trainer | Accredited.

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34. ontesol | Fully Accredited and internationally recognized.

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35. The Asian College of Teachers (ACT) | Accredited.

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36. International Open Academy | Accredited.

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37. Learn TEFL | Unaccredited.

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38. TESOL Training International Online | Unaccredited.

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39. Footprints Recruiting | Unaccredited.

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40. Henry Harvin Education | Unaccredited.

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41. Anaheim University TESOL | Fully Accredited.

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42. Dux TEFL | Accredited.

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43. Greenheart Travel TEFL | Unaccredited.

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45. Teach TEFL South Africa | Accredited.

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46. TEFL Heaven | Unaccredited.

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47. TEFL Hero | Accredited.

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48. TEFL Institute London | Accredited.

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49. TEFL Lemon | Accredited.

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50. TEFL UK | Accredited.

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51. TEFL Universal | Accredited.

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52. World TESOL Academy | Accredited.

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53. ITTT | Accredited.

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54. MyTEFL | Accredited.

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55. ESLinsider TEFL | Unaccredited.

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56. ITO | Unaccredited

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57 . The TEFL Academy | Unaccredited

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MyTEFL review (https://mytefl.com/) submitted by Yvette.

Where do I begin? I’ll start with what I didn’t like about the MyTEFL course and then I’ll finish with what I did like about it.

What I didn’t like:

1. Finished this 120-hour course in one afternoon.
2. Had to pay $99 for the TEFL certificate.
3. Noticed spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in the course content.
4. When I tried contacting the MyTEFL office I got no response.
5. The course came with online tutor support, which I didn’t receive.
6. Am worried about the international recognition of the certificate because they are only regionally recognized in Thailand.
7. The course was way too easy and the quiz questions at the end of each module were so easy that my 8-year-old son was able to answer most of them correctly.

What I liked:

1. The course price is good. I paid $199. However, you do need to account for the $99 certification fee on top of this.
2. Some of the modules were better than others. the ones that were (Grammar especially) were written really well and included some excellent graphics.
3. In the end, I did receive my certificate and as long as I want to teach in Thailand I know that I will be able to teach there without issue.

If you want to teach in Thailand, this MyTEFL course will likely be one of the ones accepted by the majority of schools within the kingdom.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Simon.

I really enjoyed the My TEFL program. It is user-friendly. After about 3 weeks the certificate arrives and you’re all done. After finishing the course, they asked where I was interested in teaching. I couldn’t get a teaching position in Japan, where I wanted to go, because I don’t have a degree, but they were able to provide me with European teaching English job options, and I’ve accepted a position in Prague, where I’ll be starting in January. Taking this course has really opened my eyes to what makes a good/bad teacher. I certainly feel more prepared now, and I am very pleased I chose this course to study TEFL.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Tina.

Did the job. I wasn’t looking for anything else other than a quick-fix TEFL certificate. They try and upsell you on job placement services when you finish but I didn’t think the price was worth it. Besides, so easy to get a job if you are a native speaker. No need to pay someone else to find a job for you. I didn’t experience any major issues with this company, so I would probably recommend them in the future. I’ll just need to see how effective the certificate is in job interviews going forward.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Jordan.

I ended up choosing MyTEFL for my TEFL certification because of all the glowing reviews, written by past alumni in the form of travel blogs. It just seemed like such a fantastic program. Well, that’s what the blogs strongly suggested. I now understand that those travel blogs are written by people who earn a referral fee every time someone books a MyTEFL course and uses their unique coupon code. IMO, this is dishonest business practice. If someone is earning money because you sign up for the MyTEFL course, their opinion won’t necessarily be objective.

OK. So here are some of the main points that the blogs claim about MyTEFL, followed by the reality.

1. MyTEFL is a fantastic course.
2. MyTEFL help with job searching.
3. MyTEFL help with building your resume.
4. The MyTEFL (120-hour) course is demanding, but fully trains you up to be a teacher of English.
5. The MyTEFL certification is internationally recognized.

1. The course was OK. I completed it in 5 days. You just read a few pages of text and then complete a quiz at the end of every module. Some of the content was good. Some of the content was just there as a filler for the overall word count.
2. No help with a job search was provided.
3. No help with building my resume was provided.
4. I did learn some useful information on the course, but I thought the course wasn’t substantial enough. You don’t receive any feedback on the assignments. Essentially, you are taking the course on your own and hoping for the best.
5. Yes, I think the certification probably is internationally recognized.

If I were to have the opportunity to take the course again, I probably wouldn’t.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Nina.

A good enough course, but avoid the aggressive offers of job placement.

I have a suspicion that the Online TEFL courses run by MyTEFL are a funnel for getting people to sign up for their job placement services. I didn’t know it at the time, but when I agreed to a teaching job in Thailand (MyTEFL job placement) about 30% of my salary was then creamed off by MyTEFL on a monthly basis. How can I be certain of this? I compared my salary with the other teachers who started at the same time as me and who were in the same position as me. They had found the job on their own. I was “helped” by MyTEFL. I read through some of the MyTEFL reviews and this has also happened to other teachers. The MyTEFL 120 hours course is OK. It’s nowhere near anything as amazing as I’ve seen some bloggers claim, but it will do the job. Just don’t do the job placement with MyTEFL and you should be fine.

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Job Guarantee MyTEFL review, submitted by Ernie.

Job Guarantee.

MyTEFL lied to me. I specifically asked MyTEFL if I could teach in Thailand with only an associate’s degree. Their reply was “Yes, you can. No problem”. I want to make it clear that there wasn’t any misunderstanding on the part of MyTEFL. I clearly told them that I don’t have a college degree, but instead, I have an associate’s degree. “Never mind” they replied. Thailand treats both with the same importance. Based on this expert knowledge, I bought a ticket to Bangkok – armed with my MyTEFL 120-hour TEFL certificate and my associate’s degree papers – and I began applying for jobs. MyTEFL had told me that the preferred method for finding work in Thailand is to go to Thailand and apply in-country because it’s much more difficult to apply for jobs when you are not in the country. I really did draw the short straw because not one of the schools I applied to would accept my associate’s degree. In Thailand, to teach legally, you must have a full college degree. Associate degrees are worthless for the work visa, which you are required to obtain if you want to teach in Thailand. Thanks, MyTEFL for wasting a whole load of my time and money I’m now desperately searching for countries where I can teach with my TEFL TEFL certificate and associates degree and because a lot of countries are shut down due to the pandemic, I am effectively stuck in Thailand until the travel corridors open up again. I would never recommend MyTEFL. They are just interested in your money and don’t give two hoots about what happens to you after that.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Cara.

For those of you who just want to get the TEFL certification to start your teaching career, this one will probably do it for you. MyTEFL makes the bold claim that their certificates are recognized around the world, a claim made by all the other TEFL schools too, and I don’t necessarily see why that wouldn’t be a true statement. I think what they are stating is that the TEFL brand is internationally recognized, not necessarily any one particular school. What I’m trying to say is that in a world population of a few billion, there is no way on earth that everyone will recognize a MyTEFL certificate. It will, however, likely suffice in most job interviews.

I thought the course was a bit flat though. You read and scroll through a bunch of text and then answer a quiz that is mostly possible to pass without having read any of the text. I’ve read how some people were able to complete the whole course in just a couple of days, and I can understand how that is possible. Just by skimming through the texts and answering the quiz questions should have finished in under 3 days. MyTEFL doesn’t provide any job assistance to speak of unless you are after a preassigned job placement position, so prepare yourself to do the legwork yourself after the course when it comes to searching for jobs. That being said, it didn’t take me so long to find a teaching position so there are plenty of teaching jobs out there if you are willing to put the time in and look for them.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Donny.

I chose to take this course, based on the good feedback I read on various blogs published on the internet. It was, therefore, a big surprise to me when the course turned out to be passable in content and the support pretty much non-existent. The course is divided into modules, each covering different aspects of teaching English as a foreign language. I thought the choice of materials covered in the modules was very good. The problem that I had was that I was able to complete a module in under an hour-meaning the whole course in its entirety took only a couple of days to complete. Each module is a page or two of text and a (simple) quiz below. There is no way this course is 120 hours. It’s a fraction of that. From payment to certification, I didn’t receive any personalized communication from MyTEFL. From payment to certification, everything is automated. After the certification step, that was it from MyTEFL. No help getting a job. No help with teaching abroad information. There was an option I saw advertised on the MyTEFL website for job placement services, but I have read that these are generally best avoided. I would like to recommend MyTEFL, but I just can’t-based on the service I received. Perhaps I was unlucky and took the course during a temporary lull in their (as one blogger wrote) ‘well-oiled TEFL machine’. Or, perhaps the blogger hadn’t even taken the course and was just more concerned about the affiliate coupon which, yes, I did enter upon checkout-to save 35% off the course fee. The price of the MyTEFL 120-Hour course is good. You’ll be able to use the certificate abroad. I’m just not sure whether you’ll learn a substantial amount about TEFL by taking this course. And if you think you will need help to find work after the course, you might find yourself out on a limb as I was.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Craig.

Needing to find a Tefl course to take pronto (long story) the one which caught my eye was my tefl academy TEFL program. mytefl.com. They had a limited-time 35% discount at the time so it was a no-brainer for me to check my credit card balance, make the purchase, and begin taking the course. I mean, how comfortable and convenient does it get to study online? It doesn’t! In just a week I passed the course and then it took a few more weeks (3) until the certificate dropped into my mailbox. Sweet! They did really kindly offer to help with job support through their recruitment partner, but I was already teaching. Things are getting stricter here in Vietnam now and my school was one of many raided to check the teachers had the work visa and TEFL qualifications. I had neither. I had to moped it over to the other side of HCMC to present my mytefl.com certificate. They gave a shrug and a look on their faces that at least to me showed they weren’t aware of the crackdown. Got it notarized and am still doing the visa runs without having any legal work papers. I’ll just face that brick wall when the time comes. Taking this course saved me a whole load of a world of pain.

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You began by making crazy accusations that trustedteflreviews.com is run by tefl online pro – I imagine because they won the Teachers’ Choice Award last year – and we have now read online that you are now claiming that it is the University of Toronto TEFL who are the masterminds behind the creation of trustedteflreviews.com because they are currently, on the day of publishing this article, the top-rated Online TEFL course on trustedteflreviews.com.

This is the final time that I am going to waste my time, defending your bitter and absurd accusations.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Anonymous.

For fear of possible retribution from MyTEFL, I would rather my name was not published with this review. If this isn’t possible, please ignore this message and don’t publish it.

Well, I guess I’m another person in a long line of people who have fallen for the clever MyTEFL marketing trap.

MANY promises were made, but few were delivered.

I chose MyTEFL because of their OTTSA accreditation and the low price, at a 35% discount at the time.

I’ve since found out, through trustedteflreviews.com that OTTSA is a creation of MyTEFL and their “TEFL friends”.

You know what. This actually doesn’t bother me so much. No one ever asked me about accreditation when I applied for jobs, so if MyTEFL wants to keep on peddling its fake accreditation credentials then that’s their costly choice for themselves.

What DID bother me was that despite being promised all the support in the world in finding work, the line of communication went dead as soon as the certificate arrived in the post.

The course is OK. Nothing amazing Not terrible either. I guess it’s your standard online TEFL course. And the certificate does look good. I must admit that. Costs a fair penny for it though. Yes, there are hidden costs.

If only MyTEFL would ditch its fake accreditation, cut back on the hidden fees, and live up to the promises they make, it could be an excellent outfit. But I have read the warnings. I have seen how they pay people to write nice things about them in return for an affiliate’s bonus.

It just isn’t right.

We are talking about someone’s life dream trip abroad. Perhaps a once in a lifetime experience. You need to choose wisely when making such important decisions.

I’ll give MyTEFL a couple of stars for the course. But that is all I will ever give them again.

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The MyTEFL.com Scam. MyTEFL is an unaccredited Online TEFL/TESOL course provider, known for taking advantage of its graduates by charging exorbitant fees for job placement services – job placement services that are often changed last minute, with teachers finding themselves placed in accommodation and schools that offer far less quality and teacher satisfaction than what was originally promised to them. MyTEFL is also famous for scamming its job placement students, by withholding a large chunk of their teaching salaries and keeping them indefinitely in the MyTEFL company bank account.

The MyTEFL.com scam.

MyTEFL is not a legitimate online TEFL/TESOL certification company | MyTEFL is not a fully accredited online TEFL/TESOL certification courses program.

Trusted TEFL Reviews recommends avoiding MyTEFL.

The main reasons for this Buyer Beware Warning:

1. MyTEFL claims to be accredited by OTTSA and ITEFLAC. OTTSA was created by a former building manager from the UK, with direct ties to MyTEFL. ITEFLAC is a fake accreditation website. NEW! MyTEFL also now claims to be accredited by the International Council for Online Educational Standards (ICOES). ICOES is, putting it kindly, a dodgy accreditation company. Its list of companies that it boasts of accrediting includes ‘Permanent Jewelry Bestie’ and ‘spray tan class’.
2. This program has attempted, on a number of occasions, to get reviews written by their staff employees published on Trusted TEFL Reviews. Trusted TEFL Reviews only publishes verified Online TEFL/TESOL customer reviews – we don’t publish fictitious reviews, self-written by Online TEFL/TESOL programs.
3. Customers complain, on a regular basis, about the job placement services offered by MyTEFL. If you decide to pay for job placement services offered through MyTEFL and Footprints Recruiting (their sister company) you will almost certainly find yourself being given alternative travel arrangements last minute – finding yourself living in different accommodations than was originally agreed upon and teaching many more hours than was previously agreed. MyTEFL doesn’t only make money from the work they do to help you find a teaching job overseas. They also make money from you by creaming off up to 40% of your monthly salary and keeping a hold of those amounts indefinitely.
4. A common complaint made by verified customers of this program is that they have easily completed the whole “120-Hour” course within one day, and have further complained that they learned very little during the course.
5. MyTEFL has been running a 30% Off courses discount, continuously, for the past year.

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The four highest-rated MyTEFL fully accredited alternative course options, listed in order of customer review ratings:

1. TEFL Online Pro – https://teflonlinepro.com/
2. OISE Toronto TEFL – https://teflonline.teachaway.com/
3. CIEE TEFL – https://www.ciee.org/
4. Maximo Nivel TEFL – https://maximonivel.com/

CIEE TEFL, Maximo Nivel, OISE Toronto TEFL, and TEFL Online Pro are Level 5 and CELTA-equivalent Online TEFL/TESOL certification programs.

TEFL Online Pro verified customer reviews:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2024

OISE Toronto TEFL verified customer reviews:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/oise-university-of-toronto-tefl/

CIEE TEFL verified customer reviews:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/ciee-tefl/

Maximo Nivel verified customer reviews:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/maximo-nivel-tefl/

CIEE TEFL, Maximo Nivel, OISE Toronto TEFL, and TEFL Online Pro certificates are Fully Accredited and internationally recognized. MyTEFL certificates are not fully accredited and are not internationally recognized.

TEFL Online Pro won the Teachers’ Choice Award in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025:

All 46 Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs currently listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews, ranked in order of customer satisfaction: https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-course-directory/

The MyTEFL.com scam.

There are three levels of accreditation: Unaccredited / Accredited / Fully Accredited.

‘Fully Accredited‘ status is the highest level of accreditation.

MyTEFL is an ‘Accredited’ Online TEFL/TESOL certification program.

This means that the MyTEFL certificate is regionally recognized but not necessarily internationally recognized.

Read more about the different levels of accreditation:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-accreditation-guide/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2021/03/28/tefl-tesol-accreditation-101/

We don’t like having to do this, but our hand has now been forced to do so.

In a previous scam article, we wrote about being defamed online.

It was pretty clear to us that the intention behind the abuse is to try and undermine the credibility of trustedteflreviews.com. And we wrote that we would try and work out who could be behind these unfounded and completely false allegations.

We now have rock-solid evidence that the defamation is being orchestrated by MyTEFL.com.

This is one example of The MyTEFL.com Scam.

MyTEFL operates out of Vancouver BC Canada, under the business identity: Footprints Language Education Ltd (Footprints Recruiting).

The long and short of it is that MyTEFL is unhappy with some of their verified customer reviews published on trustedteflreviews.com. MyTEFL contacted us towards the end of last year, to ask if we could delete the negative reviews. When we explained to them that we wouldn’t be deleting these reviews, they responded with online defamation.

In the past few days, MyTEFL has openly written in an email that they will look into possibly deleting the defaming content if we can look into possibly deleting the reviews – thus adding blackmail into the equation too.

This led us to begin collecting information on MyTEFL and Footprints Recruiting, and we were shocked at what we found.

As a result of MyTEFL choosing to go down the blackmail and defamation route, we have no choice other than to respond by exposing this company’s fraudulent activities. All this information will be added below this written notice in due course.

Therefore, please watch this space for further updates over the coming days.

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

Update: 01.31.2020

At the beginning of this week, Trusted TEFL Reviews reached out to MyTEFL.com, to politely request that if they were to take down the defamatory materials that they had published online about trustedteflreviews.com and refrain from bullying tactics – thus demonstrating a level of professionalism from their end – we would be happy to delete this post and then everyone could just move on without any drama.

Their response was to threaten us with further online attacks.

This is another example of The MyTEFL.com Scam

And so again, our hand has been forced and we are now proceeding with what our team’s research unearthed regarding MyTEFL.com and Footprints Recruiting – operating under different company aliases, but for all purposes the same company – headed by the same management.

To make this light and breezy, we will try to reduce text and try to rely on photographic/screenshot evidence…

Warning 1: “Tyler K”

If you have ever communicated with MyTEFL.com there is a high probability that you communicated directly, or indirectly with the so-called owner of the company: “Tyler K”.

Here are three mugshots of “Tyler K”:

The case in question centered on the almost non-existent vetting procedures of certain recruitment agencies. The above screenshot was taken just as the TV Presenter candidly probed the scraggy tie Ben, whether it was his agency who sent the teacher (“Mr. Swirly Face“) over to South Korea. Here, in his ‘Prince Andrew’ moment, Ben allegedly lies, as our records show that Footprints Recruiting (also operating under ‘Korea Connections’ at the time) did place him directly as a teacher to the Kwangju Foreign School, South Korea.

And the telling of black lies and porky pies continue. At that time, he had no children. Yes, he did/does work on ESL101, but if you go to the site and take a closer look, you can see that he contributes on a minimal basis. It’s just his name on the site and a group of unpaid interns contributing the bulk of the material.

Now, unless the two CEOs at Footprints Recruiting are identical twins, Ben and Tyler are spitting image doppelgangers. The 5 o’clock shadow, the ‘V’ hairline. Perhaps that’s why Ben was wearing shades in this promotional article. But why wouldn’t he want to be identified?

Conclusion: Ben Glickman is operating MyTEFL.com under the alias, “Tyler K”. If someone is willing to lie about their name, what else are they willing to lie about?

Warning 2: Accreditation

MyTEFL.com (and a certain member of their “group”) are very proud of their accreditation status, despite the online TEFL industry being unregulated and there being no one international accreditation organization for online TEFL/TESOL certification courses.

There are a few legitimate Fully Accredited and internationally recognized Online TEFL/TESOL certification course providers though, and these can be viewed in the Courses Directory.

I imagine that for anyone skimming the MyTEFL.com website, this seemingly valid endorsement from an external body could be the motivating reason for purchasing a MyTEFL.com course. At first glance, it certainly looks very professional.

Unfortunately, it is an outright scam.

OTTSA “Accrediting Professionals” claims to accredit MyTEFL and ITTT TEFL and doesn’t respond to inquiries about accreditation from literally anyone interested in accrediting their program through this “accreditation board”. I don’t care about accreditation, however, if someone is lying about it for financial gain then I know that a lot of people care.

If you take a look at Ottsa’s list of “Accredited Courses” over at http://www.ottsa.org/accredited_courses.php and if you conduct a deep search, you will soon realize that the only two online TEFL courses that care about this “accreditation” are MyTEFL and ITTT TEFL. And it’s designed to be that way. All they have done, which is quite clever, is to add some other very similarly designed TEFL courses to the list of “Accredited courses” and you can see that by the website designs that they were made by the same people. A couple of the courses on that list claim to offer 120-hour online TEFL certification courses for over 1,000 USD – apart from this obvious red herring claim when we tried to contact these fake TEFL schools we actually couldn’t find a contact for them.

Trusted TEFL Reviews recently wrote an article about accreditation, and our next Online TEFL Course Scams article will focus on the various “accreditation” companies – touted by some of the main Online TEFL course schools – and we will be unearthing the fake ones, together with the Online TEFL Programs that have paid (fake and deceiving) accreditation logos listed on their school websites.

Please read the Warning! The OTTSA Accrediting professionals scam post for the latest update.

Warning 3: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing has become popular during the past decade, and when conducted ethically, it can help both the consumer and the business.

However, our attention was recently brought to the attention of a MyTEFL.com review on trustedteflreviews.com where the reviewer warned others not to trust the motivation behind MyTEFL’s affiliate “TEFL soldiers” out on the global field: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2019/12/28/dont-believe-the-mytefl-travel-blogs/

Trusted TEFL Reviews decided to look further into this and discovered the company with whom MyTEFL.com has an affiliate agreement:

Ah, there’s “Tyler K” again

If you Google, ‘MyTEFL Reviews’ or, ‘MyTEFL Blog’ then you are certain to land upon seemingly innocent blogs, whereby the blog owners and writers praise MyTEFL.com to the high heavens and tell you TEFL mantras such as, “Go for it!”, “It changed my life!”.

The issue here is that it cannot be certain that these bloggers even took the MyTEFL.com course. And if they did, they could never be the source of impartial, unbiased feedback because for every one of you who uses one of their promo codes – always shown in a predominant section of the website/blog – the owner of the website/blog receives a commission for the sale in return.

So, in this case, we completely agree with the comments made by Alex when she writes, ‘Do not believe the MyTEFL travel blogs’.

One other amazing example is the current trend for MyTEFL affiliates to create mirror image “The Best 5 Online TEFL Courses” websites. MyTEFL and their “group” always feature at the top. And of course, the website is jam-packed with affiliate links – with people low on funds writing such rubbish as either never have taken any courses on the list, or who have taken one and then seen a way to further their world travels by earning money through the MyTEFL affiliates program. #misleading.

Warning 4: Fake Reviews

In our previous Online TEFL Course Reviews Scams article, we noted that MyTEFL.com contacted us at trustedteflreviews.com towards the end of last year – at the time, politely requesting whether we could delete negative, verified customer reviews of their Online TEFL program. We declined and the online defamation began.

Unfortunately, I don’t have copies of those emails because at the time I assumed I was dealing with a professional TEFL course owner.

In the past weeks, however, we received strongly-worded threats to delete verified customer negative reviews – reviews that MyTEFL.com now conveniently chooses to label as being “fake”.

A verified customer review on trustedteflreviews.com may be negative, but it isn’t fake – especially when a course certificate of TEFL completion is used as proof of course attendance.

The following are snippets of a recent conversation between Ben Glickman (AKA “Tyler K”) and forwarded to me (Mia Williams) through an anonymous third party. I won’t be adding any additional text to the email screenshots as I feel they speak for themselves, and you are free to make up your minds as to the hidden and not-so-hidden context and meaning of this recently recorded online conversation.

It must also be noted here that MyTEFL.com has created a hastily put-together blackmail attack (WordPress.org) website, with the sole purpose of manipulating “facts” and in the hope of inflicting maximum damage to their greatest competitors through false, defamatory online content.

Warning 5: The “Group”

In our recent communication with Ben Glickman, he openly threatened that he would reach out and have the “group” attack us further online.

Now, he might delete or edit the information online after reading this, as he has tried to do so all week before reading this, regarding other materials online, but we took a look at the Footprints Recruiting recommended (other) TEFL courses, and you can see the logos of ITTT TEFL (which is their ‘Top Pick” given they share the same made-up accreditation) i-to-i TEFL, and International TEFL Academy.

Please note here that this blog post is not intended to criticize the latter three. However, if we receive similar online defamation we will act accordingly like we have done so here with the MyTEFL.com scam warning post.

Warning 6: Trashing the competition

At first, we wondered whether we were the only ones to have been attacked online by Ben Glickman’s stumpy keyboard fingers and unethical business brain. But, we are not.

We discovered many examples of attempts to trash respectable online TEFL companies that share a more positive image online – companies that provide excellent customer services and excellent customer care.

But what they sow, they tend to reap: MyTEFL and Footprints Recruiting.

And here they are writing sly, under-the-table falsehoods about one of their competitors, Teach Away:

Ben Glickman also decided to attack other online TEFL schools recently.

This is always a red flag and reinforces the growing evidence of The MyTEFL.com Scam.

One of the programs he attacked online, through a proxy website that looks very similar to the type of website he usually gets his (unpaid) interns or (paid) affiliates to create was a direct attack on tefl online pro.

Now, I can sort of fathom why he would feel a bizarre urge to attack trustedteflreviews.com, but why attack tefl online pro?

Ah. Of course! tefl online pro has been voted the Teachers’ Choice Award Winner, in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Ben feels that MyTEFL.com should have received the award.

Well, Ben. I know that you and your cronies will be reading this, so here are a few words of wisdom for you.

Here is our official statement, and we hope that you can begin focusing on your business products and services, instead of acting like a 2-bit hustler semi-gangster from years gone past:

trustedteflreviews.com is an unbiased online TEFL course review website.

We are not affiliated, in any way, with any of the online TEFL programs that we list on our site.

If an online TEFL school receives more positive reviews than negative reviews, it means they are doing something right. If an online TEFL school receives more negative reviews than positive reviews, it means they are doing something wrong and they should focus on improving their product and services.

Thank you, all of you who have taken the time to read this. And as a final note, we thought it only fair to hear from a few not-so-satisfied people who have had dealings with MyTEFL.com/Footprints Recruitment over the relatively few years that both companies have been operating Online TEFL courses and recruitment placements, as our research has concluded that around 95% of the MyTEFL reviews online have very likely been written by Ben’s affiliate spiderweb:

MyTEFL and Footprints Recruiting have now been blacklisted from Trusted TEFL Reviews. What this means, is that their listings will remain on trustedteflreviews.com – we will publish both positive and negative (customer-verified) reviews of their program, and we will also – in the coming weeks – make it clear to everyone visiting trustedteflreviews.com that MyTEFL and Footprints Recruiting has broken the website code of professional conduct, with a direct notice provided with their listings. If the situation changes and MyTEFL and Footprints Recruiting start treating their customers and their competition with professional respect, then we will reconsider taking this notice down.

There are some excellent Online TEFL certification Programs listed on trustedteflreviews.com that go out of their way to provide excellent training and job-hunting support.

We are not going to stand for a few bad apples to ruin it for everyone. And, neither should you.

We welcome any comments in the reply section below.

If and when we are notified of shady practices or even outright scams, we will post details of them in the Online TEFL Course Scams section of this website.

This ‘The MyTEFL.com Scam’ article was written by Mia Williams for Trusted TEFL Reviews.

WARNING! We strongly recommend that readers are made fully aware of MyTEFL’s violation of the international TEFL/TESOL Code of Professional Conduct, and examples of further MyTEFL.com scams:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/02/mytefl-a-code-of-conduct-violation/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/18/warning-the-ottsa-accrediting-professionals-scam/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/01/24/the-mytefl-com-scam/

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Alex.

If all of the myTEFL graduate travel blogs are to believe, you will have an “awesome” time on this course; receiving the “best” in online Tefl training and job-finding services. There’s just one problem-those travel blogs aren’t written by people doing it out of love. They are writing about how great MyTEFL is because they get to earn an affiliate commission on each and every new course sign-up that is recorded through their blog. Very disingenuous indeed. It took me 4 days to wrap this course up. A 120-hour course in 4 days. It was in no way a 120-hour course. Very light on the content depth too. And when it was all done and dusted, when I had received my TEFL certificate and was waiting in anticipation for help to locate a job abroad, the help never came. Basically, they try and upsell you on a job placement or internship and go silent when you say you want to look for a job on your own and with their help. I’ve never had an experience like it when so much was promised upfront and so little actually provided. Don’t believe the myTEFL travel blogs! That is the lesson learned from this whole experience.

WARNING! We strongly recommend that readers are made fully aware of MyTEFL’s violation of the international TEFL/TESOL Code of Professional Conduct:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/02/mytefl-a-code-of-conduct-violation/

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/01/24/the-mytefl-com-scam/

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