Comments on: ESLinsider https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/06/07/eslinsider/ TEFL and TESOL Online Certification Course Reviews in 2026. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Justine https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/06/07/eslinsider/#comment-2642 Sun, 05 May 2024 05:43:36 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=12475#comment-2642 I was online-scammed by ESL Insider.
At first, I thought Ian was some kind of TEFL warrior – helping people with his many years of teaching experience.
I now discover that he doesn’t even have a TEFL certificate himself, he was banned from Facebook for spreading conspiracy theories, he trashes all of his competitors in the TEFL space, and his TEFL certificate program isn’t recognized.
It’s all smoke and mirrors.
Ian Leahy (AKA ESLinsider) is a dangerous scam.
People have gone to prison because of his advice given about buying fake degrees online for teaching jobs in China.
I’m now left with a worthless certificate after taking an extremely poor TEFL course.
Scam!

]]> By: Trusted TEFL Reviews https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/06/07/eslinsider/#comment-1527 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:05:41 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=12475#comment-1527 Patricia.

Thanks for adding your comment.

Some people who believe ESLinsider/Ian Patrick Leahy might be gullible, but I think the majority of people who do fall for his stories just haven’t been in TEFL long enough to realize that what they are reading by Ian is completely fabricated and intended to further his own financial benefit.

The problem is that Ian isn’t upfront about ESLinsider being a TEFL program competitor.

He starts off by hooking people in with a story, written by a supposed “insider”, and then later down the road he tries to sell them one of his TEFL courses.

By the time the person finds out they have been duped into believing a load of horse crap, and by the time they have already paid money for one of his courses, it’s far too late and they find themselves victim of an intricate scam.

Thankfully, more people are wise to this now- thanks to myself and others who have made it their mission to make TEFL newbies aware of the hidden agenda behind his TEFL conspiracy theories and general TEFL spam.

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

]]> By: Patricia https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/06/07/eslinsider/#comment-1526 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:41:56 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=12475#comment-1526 I was intrigued by this article and I looked up Ian Leahy ESLinsider online. He sure does push a lot of narratives that paint his competitors as crooks and himself as a pillar of truth. I can’t understand why anyone would take him seriously but I’m guessing some gullible people do.

]]>