There is a lot of abuse in the online TEFL industry. Capitalising on the online education boom, new companies spring up, funded by venture capital money. When the investment dries up and the business cannot support itself, however, they can disappear overnight, leaving both tutors and students out of pocket.

Plenty of tutors have horror-stories like this.

Before joining the platform I work for, one of our tutors worked for a Chinese ESL company which suddenly stopped trading and ne...