Re: OT: Degree Scams

From: <Shannon>
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 10:54:00 EDT

Ah but the degree may not be fake -- just useless, and the people taxed to check credentials may not have a clue what "accredited" means when it comes to engineering degrees...

-Shannon

• Paul Bowers <pbowers@pipingdesign.com> wrote:

> Christopher Wright wrote:
>
> >> How can anyone fall for these scams?
>
> > People are still throwing away money at casinos
> and biting on the
> > Nigerian 419 scam after all the publicity and the
> obvious bogosity of
> > the thing. I really do think a lot of people
> simply cannot resist the
> > thought of getting something for nothing.
>
> Gambling I can understand. 419 scams seem to be
> clueless peoples'
> attempts to get rich quick, which I can also *sort*
> of understand.
>
> But paying for a fake degree? Do these people assume
> that no one will
> ever bother to check where the credentials come from
> (before or) after
> they are outed as being totally
> incompetent/unqualified?
>
> I just don't get it.
>
> Paul
>
>
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