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Education Verification Fraud on the Increase

There has been an increase in education verification fraud.  Some employment candidates claim graduation and are only verified as enrollment only.  Some of the candidates never went to that school at all.

And then there are the diploma mills where one is awarded a diploma for several hundred bucks and “live experience.”  Whatever that means.  Of course, the colleges listed through diploma mills are bogus or non-accredited universities.

Here is one article I wrote earlier about diploma mills.  It bears a second look, given the increase in education fraud.  It is entitled, Norwegian Mass Murderer Supported Himself with Diploma Mill Scam.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

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