Written by Luke
@Worlda
Dear incoming ESL
Teachers,
I believe you are
all very excited right now to teach in China, but ask yourself, how much do you actually know about China?
How are you going to protect yourself if you do not know anything about the
society? If you want to protect yourself
in a foreign country, then my article would be very helpful. China has the
biggest population in the world, so the competition here is very intensive; a
lot of people end up doing unappropriate things in order to gain access to
quick money, and scamming is one of the easiest ways for them to achieve their
goal. It is true that the salary of
foreign ESL teachers earn is very decent compare to most Chinese people, so
trust me, the scammers are ready for you, and I want you to be ready for them.
I am going to show some classic examples
of Chinese scamming tricks; they might not be effective to Chinese anymore, and
I hope they do not work well on you either after reading this article.
Scam No. 1: Faking
When we are
talking about the word faking, if
you can think of the soccer player Cristiano
Ronaldo, or the basketball player Anderson
Varejao, that is good, because you get the meaning of what faking means, the
Chinese scammers are basically running a similar model. Faking scammers tend to pretend something that is not real to be
real, and then use it to attract pepole nearby and force you to comply with
their deal under public pressure, because it is often very deceiving and not everyone can find out the truth. For example,
when you are driving on the road at some areas with low speed limit, a scammer
may just pop out in front of your car, your reaction makes you step on the
break and you will not likely to actually hit the scammer, and then, the
scammer will come close to your car and kick your car in order to make a “Pon”
sound, after this he will lay down on the street, holding his leg and scream, “ahhh, my legs”. He will make the noise
so loud that it will draw nearby people’s attention, and many nosey people will
soon gather to your car. When the scammer thinks that there is enough audiences,
he will then say, “he drove too fast and
hit me, ahhh I can’t feel my leg, I need 3000RMB to see a doctor.” Most
audiences will then start judging you and they won’t let you go away. Many
drivers are nervous and they want to solve the issue as soon as possible, so
they would choose to just give the scammer money in order to keep this low, and
the scammer wins. If you get into situation like this, you should call the
police, the police will take the scammer to the hospital and find out the truth.
Scam No.2: Using your sympathy
When I was
studying in the US, I found out that Americans are very sympathetic; and they would always like to help others. But in
China, your sympathy might be used by scammers, which may cause you a lot of
troubles. Here is one example, sometimes you may see an old woman walking on
the street, she will look weak and move waddlely, suppose you are a sympathetic
person, you go holding the woman and try to help her walk smoother, if you are
lucky, she will respond to you like, “Ahhh, it is so nice of you, there isn’t
that many good people like you now”, but if you are unlucky, you will find this
woman fall down on the ground as soon as you touch her, and she starts to
scream, “ahhhh why do you hit me”.
Same as our last example, people will gather around you really quick and if you
don’t have any witnesses for you
have not done anything to her, you will have to pay this woman quite a lot of
money. I am not asking you to be a cold-blooded person, sympathy is a good
thing, I have it, and I want others to have it, too. But keep this example in
mind, try to observe more before you act, don’t get used by scammers because
you are warm hearted.
There are other
more examples of Chinese scammers; some are in the internet, and some other
like to do tricks with message sand calls. I suggest incoming ESL Teachers to
do more researches on Chinese, not only for the dark side, but also the good
side. Good and bad are always balanced; there are many beautiful things and
great people in China, but still, Worlda wants you to be safe and keep your
hard earned money. I wish you all have a good fortune on your career.
Thanks for reading
our blog!
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