PAPee: We're Caught Off Guard on Roaring Fake Degree Trade by FTrash!

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AS SINGAPORE becomes a brand name as a high-value education hub in the region, degrees from local universities are becoming more coveted among foreign students.
And like most things that have high demand, the degrees have attracted counterfeiters out to make a fast buck.
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The New Paper on Sunday learnt recently that fake degrees from National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management University (SMU) were on sale here.
An investigative team went undercover to expose this apparently roaring trade where a fake degree can be bought for anything from a few hundred dollars to $4,000.
All it takes is a brief online chat and a quick face-to-face exchange to buy a fake degree.
And what The New Paper on Sunday uncovered has caught the universities here by surprise. All said that they weren't aware of counterfeit local degrees being sold here.
The counterfeiters, who are based in Singapore and China, offer to sell the fake degrees on popular Internet forums.
One seller exposed by The New Paper on Sunday said that the buyers are usually foreign nationals, mostly from China, who are returning to their home countries.
He advertises his services on forums frequented by foreign nationals.
Others run sophisticated websites offering an array of counterfeiting services such as fake degrees, transcripts and identification documents.
Some, including two sites based in Shenzhen and Shanghai, offer a comprehensive list of fake degrees and diplomas from local institutions, including NUS, NTU, SMU, SIM University, Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS)and Temasek Polytechnic.
To make their activities more difficult to track, most vendors restrict correspondence with customers to instant messaging on QQ, an instant messenger program commonly used in China.


After a brief online conversation, prospective customers need only to arrange a mutually convenient time to meet the vendor to pay a deposit, or send payment via bank <!--<INNITY>--><!--</INNITY>-->transfer.

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When the fake degree is ready, customers meet the vendor again to pay the balance and get the degree. Alternatively, they can opt to receive the fake degree by post.
The cost of a fake degree can range from $300 to $4,000. A set of fake transcripts from local universities is also available for an additional $700.
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[Queen Seok Duk]

Can buy NUS MBBS degree or not ?

 

[myfoot123]

I am sure MOM also never check and easily get coned - complacency from govt dept is nothing new in recent years. PAP is the one that needs a deep spur into their hind.

 

[halsey02]

I am sure MOM also never check and easily get coned - complacency from govt dept is nothing new in recent years. PAP is the one that needs a deep spur into their hind.

Yeah!...you expose too much oftheir ineptness, they will shackle you like CSj & pur spurs on your behind...

 

[IR123]

It is very easy for NUS and NTU to counter this.

They can have an online roll of graduates which any prospective employer can check.

There should not be any confidentiality issues involved as nobody studied for a degree in order to put it under the bed.

Unless the buyer of the degree has the same name or is also willing to change his name, this should be safeguard enough.

Another safeguard can be for the prospective employer to call NUS and double-check the serial number of the degree.

A third safeguard is for the prospective employer to require a certified transcript from the job applicant, certified by the University.

So unless the employer is a goondu, the NUS and NTU degrees can maintain its integrity.

 

[metalslug]

Please locate the buyers!!!