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I forwarded this to one of my collegues, and this was his response: Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:12:19 +0100 Subject: Re: [Security-support] fakedegrees.com (fwd) Hi Kat, Well, it is dodgy :-) I've cross-posted the original email to the UK security mailing list. Andrew Cormack from JANET-CERT had this to say, "As far as I can see the site is hosted in Arizona, but the domain name is owned by someone who claims to be in Barcelona, though I'm not convinced by "Treehill St" as an address in either Catalan or Spanish. I've a memory that faking a certificate for an institution that does exist is illegal, but faking one that doesn't isn't, but for that reference I need to check my wife's law book, rather than mine, and I can't do that till tomorrow." So, there may be a complaint from UKERNA but we'll have to see. ________________________________________ On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Brian Lienard wrote: | Phil Bradley asks: | > 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 have absolutely zero expertise on this but it would seem difficult if they | are based abroad. I also found the following article just now: | | "Fake degrees a serious problem for employers" | International Chamber of Commerce Commercial Crime Services | http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/news_archives/2000/fake_degrees.asp | | Quote from above: | "Those actually responsible for manufacturing and selling the fake academic | certification, however, generally manage to avoid criminal prosecution by | stating at the point of sale that their products are not genuine. An officer | from a major British crime unit said that dealers in fake certificates could | only be charged with aiding and abetting if it could be proved that they | knew when they sold their products that they would be misused." | | Regards, | Brian Lienard | webkeeper | Institute of Education University of London | ----- |