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China Probes Online Side Job Scam That Cost Teachers Millions

Sixth Tone  · 公众号  ·  · 2025-03-27 20:04
    

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A growing number of teachers say they lost money to a platform that faked students and delayed payments before disappearing entirely. Hundreds of teachers across China have been defrauded in a pyramid scheme posing as an online tutoring platform, with some victims losing hundreds of thousands of yuan.  According to local media reports and police investigations, the scheme involved a company that recruited teachers for high-paying, part-time online tutoring jobs.  Teachers were required to pay upfront “information fees” to access students — many of whom were later revealed to be fake. After initial payments were made on time, the company delayed further payouts and abruptly cut off communication, prompting multiple complaints and police action in cities including Chengdu, Shanghai, and Haikou. One of the victims, a teacher from the northern Hebei province identified by the pseudonym Yang Yang, told the Shanghai-based news outlet The Paper that she lost more than 110,000 yuan ($1 ………………………………

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