Fake Online University

[Alpha]

You don't hear these stories too often anymore
Fake Online University Impersonates UNO, Scams Students (govtech.com)
A fake online university pretending to be UNO is scamming potential students out of thousands of dollars | Education | nola.com

[bjcheung77]

My goodness, so many scammers out there! That is sad, the 34 year old lady lost about $2 grand and was "asked to pay more fees", lucky she smartened up and thought about it more clearly and noticed she was scammed... otherwise if she kept paying those "fees" she would have been in the hole even more!

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LOL, the second link is different but the article is the same thing?! Am I reading that correctly?

[Vle045]

Well, this led me down a path of Google searching their “accreditation” and I found two different universities that have the same Faculty names but different pictures. Wow. I knew there were fake universities, but I guess I didn’t realize how many.

https://www.dgfu.education/about/our-faculty/

https://www.calbrooksuniversity.educatio...r-faculty/

I wonder how many other universities employ this same staff.

[Johann]

Well, this led me down a path of Google searching their “accreditation” and I found two different universities that have the same Faculty names but different pictures.  Wow. I knew there were fake universities, but I guess I didn’t realize how many.

https://www.dgfu.education/about/our-faculty/

https://www.calbrooksuniversity.educatio...r-faculty/

I wonder how many other universities employ this same staff.

None. These people are more likely models - not professors. And these may be stock photos. They're blameless - probably they showed up for a gig, at some time in the past - maybe in London, maybe elsewhere - and their pic has since been used. These are made-up names. Alternatively, they could be pictures just right-clicked from the internet by these thieves. Possibly from a company roster, or even a legit University. I've found a lot of their Internet blurbs have been lifted from well-known legit universities - so why not a few pictures to go with? Either scenario is equally possible. These fraudsters have also been known to post pictures of buildings from known Universities and claim them as their own.

How many "Universities" are involved? At least 300 fake schools. And the same firm has established a bunch of fake accreditation agencies. We're talking Axact here - the unstoppable Pakistani fraud ring. Unstoppable because the Government and Courts of Pakistan are unwilling to stop them. The "take" is estimated at $2 million a month for fake degrees. They have recently changed the corporate name from Axact to I-forget-what, but are still run out of the same buildings in Karachi and Islamabad.

BJCheung77 mentioned a lady who lost $2,000 +. Some others have not been so lucky. There was a court case a long time ago, involving a loss of over $250,000 by one individual. Some years ago, an American law firm sued, on behalf of a client who had been bilked by Axact, with a "Belford University" degree. They obtained a judgment for around $20 million but it was impossible to effect any recovery. 

Pure-D Evil!

[Vle045]

I guess i should have put “quotes” around “Employ”. I know they aren’t real staff. That’s pretty obvious. It’s unfortunate that so many people are scammed by them. There was one in my hometown a few years back. I doubt they were physically there, but they used a local address. Pennsylvania was able to shut them down…. But only from doing business in Pennsylvania. I googled them and they are now located in another state - same name - but now they have a disclaimer that they can’t accept students from Pennsylvania.

[freeloader]

Well, this led me down a path of Google searching their “accreditation” and I found two different universities that have the same Faculty names but different pictures.  Wow. I knew there were fake universities, but I guess I didn’t realize how many.

https://www.dgfu.education/about/our-faculty/

https://www.calbrooksuniversity.educatio...r-faculty/

I wonder how many other universities employ this same staff.

None. These people are more likely models - not professors. And these may be stock photos. They're blameless - probably they showed up for a gig, at some time in the past - maybe in London, maybe elsewhere - and their pic has since been used. These are made-up names. Alternatively, they could be pictures just right-clicked from the internet by these thieves. Possibly from a company roster, or even a legit University. I've found a lot of their Internet blurbs have been lifted from well-known legit universities - so why not a few pictures to go with? Either scenario is equally possible. These fraudsters have also been known to post pictures of buildings from known Universities and claim them as their own.

How many "Universities" are involved? At least 300 fake schools. And the same firm has established a bunch of fake accreditation agencies. We're talking Axact here - the unstoppable Pakistani fraud ring. Unstoppable because the Government and Courts of Pakistan are unwilling to stop them. The "take" is estimated at $2 million a month for fake degrees. They have recently changed the corporate name from Axact to I-forget-what, but are still run out of the same buildings in Karachi and Islamabad.

BJCheung77 mentioned a lady who lost $2,000 +. Some others have not been so lucky. There was a court case a long time ago, involving a loss of over $250,000 by one individual. Some years ago, an American law firm sued, on behalf of a client who had been bilked by Axact, with a "Belford University" degree. They obtained a judgment for around $20 million but it was impossible to effect any recovery. 

Pure-D Evil!

I love Google image search. 

Turns out “Professor Willmore” is featured on the cover of an office supply catalog:
https://www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publ...=&p=3&pre=
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo...-410797786

Professor Philip serves as a professor of education while also working as an oral surgeon in Washington State. 
https://www.marthalakedental.com/services

Professor Jackson pretended to be a person called Malin to get a good job as a sales executive
https://www.bluesteps.com/executive-jobs/cso
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-portra...09711.html

[Johann]

I love Google image search. 

Turns out “Professor Willmore” is featured on the cover of an office supply catalog:
https://www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publ...=&p=3&pre=
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo...-410797786

Professor Philip serves as a professor of education while also working as an oral surgeon in Washington State. 
https://www.marthalakedental.com/services

Professor Jackson pretended to be a person called Malin to get a good job as a sales executive
https://www.bluesteps.com/executive-jobs/cso
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-portra...09711.html

Great. In fact "Malin" appears to be an Alamy stock picture. Used by a firm to represent "Malin" and published with a story about her. Will the real "Malin" please stand up.....

[Vle045]

Now THAT is awesome!!