Maybe you are searching for info on courses and asking yourself... Is trusted TEFL reviews legit? Or is TEFL online pro legit?
Well, I absolutely do not think so.
So why am I writing this?
To tell the truth. Plus the guy who owns those two sites made up a bunch of lies about me and then has the nerve to copy me. I previously wrote about Trusted TEFL reviews on Reddit.
And I am not going to keep turning my cheek.
You can see the slander that he wrote about me when you search these keywords:
eslinsider reviews
You'll see some pages and negative "reviews" that he wrote to slander my name and ESLinsider. They say that they were written by a "Mia Williams" (his fake name) on trusted TEFL reviews, Quora, TEFL.net, and if you are looking at the search results you'll see another anonymous slanderous review about me written by another troll.
"Trusted" TEFL reviews makes a lot of claims about how his reviews are supposedly more legitimate than others. And he acts and talks online as if "Trusted TEFL reviews" is some extraordinaire site or big company.
No.
His stuff is all over the web on Quora, Reddit, Medium, Twitter, etc.
He is a fraud.
How do I know?
Your first clue is the fact that if you search for infomation on who is Mia Williams "co-owner of TTR" you won't find much. That's because it's a fake name. And people who don't want to reveal their identity either make anonymous comments or they might go so far as to make a fictitious one.
You can do a search for:
trusted tefl reviews mia williams
Your second clue can be found on Trusted TEFL reviews.
Go look for the "Teacher's choice award" there and see who won.
There you'll see that TEFL online pro won.
Hmmm...
That's a good way to trick people who have no idea.
I saw this on Twitter.
Of course TTR is a review site so he tries to make it look real, but I can tell you that a good deal of those reviews there are fake and written by him.
Here's a fake review on his site.
How do I know it's fake?
Does it look like a normal review to you?
Well, I had my doubts to begin with, but I read it and that suggests that the person who wrote that took the course 2 years ago, but when I checked the Who Is record (public data on websites) it said the site was not that old.
Take a look.
So how can someone take a course from TEFL online pro and 2 years later be teaching in Vietnam when TEFL online pro isn't two years old?
You can check the Waybackmachine and see that review has been there at least since May 2019.
And OHH!
What a coincidence.
Guess how old "Trusted" TEFL reviews is?
That's only 11 days between the creation of both TTR and TEFL online pro.
Someone told me who "Mia Williams" really was...
Not long after I wrote that post on Reddit about him someone came forward and told me his name. They didn't want to reveal their identity so I won't. Here are some of his comments sent to me in a message on Reddit.
[–]from (username deleted) sent 7 months ago
Trusted TEFL Reviews is most likely run by a man named Neville Thomas. I took his online course years ago and he got caught making tons and tons of fake reviews and fake review sites. His nickname with grads was Neville the Devil. This all seems like his work. His previous fake review site was https://teflonlinereviews.wordpress.com/
Seems pretty similar to what's going on with Trusted TEFL Reviews right? Same feel and same language. Same woman who comes out of thin air and totally is biased towards one course in particular. Anyway, I followed a rabbit whole and found you...
My issues with him are in the past and I don't like dealing with crazy people. I looked at the review site and I'm sure most of the negative reviews are fake. God, it's so similar to what was happening 5 years ago.
At the time, his previous course was called ITTP. He's a strange and relentlessly crazy man. This is just speculation on my part, but if you check him out, there's a good chance it's him. Maybe reach out to the other online courses. I am sure they are aware of who he is and what he's done in the past. Good luck (and be careful).
Another message by the same person:
I noticed people were being attacked and I knew it was him. TEFL Online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews are all the same person and owned by Neville Thomas. I guess it's because it's not my deal anymore. I just figured you might want to put a potential name to the person is going after you and kind of warn you that this guy is all about creating false identities and attacking people.
And I found another site that talks about this previous review scam.
http://ittp-tefl-reviews.blogspot.com/
What he does...
He copies other people's content and reviews. I've even seen him copy ideas and parts of reviews from my site. He also attacks other people online.
"TEFL online pro" is a similar name to another company out there. And ITTP his old site is similar to another brand out there as well.
If you ask me...
This is an industry of copycats in one form or another and there are a lot of lies.
UPDATE:
So like I expected he found this and contacted me. I am pasting his emails here...
His first email...
ESLinsider and online defamation - Cease and desist notice
My Williams <trustedteflreviews@gmail.com>
Sun 6/21/2020 2:08 AM
ESLinsider and online defamation - Cease and desist notice.
https://trustedteflreviews.com/2020/02/03/eslinsider-online-tefl-tesol-certification-course-reviews/
Mia Williams.
trustedteflreviews.com
His second email...
The lobster conundrum (an after-thought)
Mia Williams <trustedteflreviews@gmail.com>
Sun 6/21/2020 2:20 AM
Do you really want to remain stagnant as lobster No.39?
His third email...
ESLinsider.com listing on trustedteflreviews.com
Mia Williams <trustedteflreviews@gmail.com>
Mon 6/22/2020 10:49 PM
ESLinsider.com.
We can see from our visitor stats that you have viewed the warning of ESLinsider.com.
This warning has been published, based on legitimate grounds. If the details of the warning are untrue, we will delete the warning.
I really don't understand why you have chosen to start defaming trustedteflreviews.com. We are aware of the defamation laws in Japan and will proceed as necessary.
Personally, If I were you, I would have a graduate of your program submit a review to trustedteflreviews.com as then we would be able to confirm the legitimacy of your school, and the warning would be deleted - plus any other comments I may have posted online about ESLinsider. ESLinsider would also jump in the school rankings and would further jump with each new review received. It is a well-established fact that the higher the position of a school on trustedteflreviews.com, the larger the increase in a school's website traffic and ultimately a larger increase in business for that school.
This, of course, would need to be taken in the context of ceasing the online defamation - your comments online are defamatory because they are incorrect. And, of course, we would need to be satisfied that ESLinsider really exists as an Online TEFL program.
At the moment, though, you are in self-destruct mode and your behavior has created a lot of red flags for us.
We hope you decide to begin acting more professionally. If you did choose to continue down the same path, we would need to respond in kind.
Mia Williams - (Btw, Mia is my middle name. )
Oh really? It's your middle name now? Despite the fact that you parade around the web as "Mia".
Fraud.
You're full of it.
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