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Detecting Fraud through Google

I came across a December 09 issue Wired magazine with an article talking about Dr. George Gollin’s successful quest to take down a diploma mill called “St. Regis University”. After coming across it, I just wanted to know how many people claim to be the graduates of the St. Regis University on Linkedin. So I simply did an Advanced Google Search to find how many people are St. Regis University “Alumni”.

Some graduates include:

- A high school teacher
- Security manager at a Fortune company.
- An American Advisor to Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan
- An quality Engineer
- An American Superconductor Applications Engineer in Taiwan
- A wealth management advisory company president in Boston
- A systems admin for a state tax commission.

Even worse, there is a medical diploma mill that Dr. George Gollin is fighting right now called St. Luke School of Medicine.

They already have “a graduate” in Linkedin, a fellow Realtor who decided to become a “Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine”. I love Google, don’t you?

2 Comments

  1. Oh yes, who doesn’t love Google. Great way to discover some of the greatest frauds in life (whether you mean to or not!_

    My question is, why would these people create profiles on LinkedIn? I’m assuming they’re fake?

    Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 9:41 pm | Permalink
  2. Mert wrote:

    They never think people will realize these college degrees are fake.

    Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 8:19 pm | Permalink

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