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uk>, Gareth McAleese <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I know this is a scam, but has anybody come across fakedegrees.com?
I haven't seen this one before, but I do know that it's a growing
industry - at least from the number of spam emails that I get offering
to sell me degrees.
>
>It's a site that will create fake/novelty award certificates from your
>favourite university/college. It allows you to search for your institution,
>
>ours is listed and so are a few other UK universities that I tried. They
>clearly disclaim that they are for novelty/joke purposes and not for
>fraudulent use.
Are the certificates that they sell ripped off from your own
institutions certificates do you know? If so, I guess that you could
complain on the grounds of copyright violation.
>
>I also note from their site they are also about to launch a fake transcript
>service to go with you new shiny new 'novelty' certificate.
I think that's rather more worrying - I assume that someone who has one
of these things could refer a query regarding it to their site, which
would then confirm that yes, the qualification had been "awarded".
However, I guess that also depends on if the enquiry service is clearly
identified as 'fakedegrees.com'
Rgds,
Phil.
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