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Fake Russian Music Degrees
Status: Fraud
Korean investigators have uncovered a case of widespread degree fraud involving over 120 people who bought fake Russian music degrees from a woman "identified as Do": Do advertised her institute as a Korean campus of the Russian university and the Russian college dean came here along with a couple of other Russian professors for about 10 days a year to provide lessons,'' said a prosecutor... Prosecutors said that the fake degree holders registered their degrees at the Korea Research Foundation (KRF) and some of them worked as lecturers at local universities, trying to create an academic clique.
This strikes me as odd as I would never have picked music as a field conducive to degree fraud, since other musicians would notice pretty quickly if you don't know what you're doing. Also, the idea that these fake degree holders were all colluding to create an academic clique is a bit bizarre. They must have figured there was strength in numbers.
The case also reminded me of the fake Moscow Philharmonic that was caught touring in Hong Kong back in 2000.
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Categories: Con Artists Posted by Alex on Mon Mar 20, 2006 |
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Do... a deer? A female deer?
Posted by AqueousBoy on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 10:18 AM
haha, Jane Do[e]
Posted by Mera on Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 07:52 PM
What?! I got a masters in Britney Spears and a doctorate in Christina Aguilera from there! I was robbed!
Posted by David B. on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 12:25 PM
"I would never have picked music as a field conducive to degree fraud, since other musicians would notice pretty quickly if you don't know what you're doing" -- Alex, what would you choose then? What's the field where other specialists can't tell when you have no clue on what you're doing?
Posted by Gutza on Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 04:37 PM
I wouldn't think music is a field conducive to degree fraud, because a degree in Music has a pretty low market value compared to many other degrees.
But if anything has any cash value at all, I guess, somebody somewhere will try to counterfeit it.
Posted by Big Gary in Turkey, Texas in Dallas, Texas, USA on Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 06:22 PM
But if anything has any cash value at all, I guess, somebody somewhere will try to counterfeit it.
Big Gary, au contraire, I would definitely go for something low profile. I mean, getting a fake medical/engineering/architectural/whatever-hard-to-get degree will get you more money, but (a) you'll get caught pretty darn quickly and (b) you face way more drastic consequences.
Actually, I think the whole thing makes sense as far as the fraudsters go. They were just dumb enough to get caught, but apart from that, I think they were pretty smart.
Posted by Gutza on Thu Mar 23, 2006 at 04:03 AM
Actually, I think the whole thing makes sense as far as the fraudsters go. They were just dumb enough to get caught, but apart from that, I think they were pretty smart.
Oh these russians are realy crazy. It is posible to buy everything for money!!! How can this be! You can buy scientific degree so easily??? I wount be suprised if you can buy a documents that you are a special agent there!!! Never going to go to russia!
Posted by Fairy Queen in virginia on Sun Jun 08, 2008 at 07:02 AM
Sounds like some kinda degree mafia..
Posted by Carla Delponte in Italy on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 05:37 AM
Real musicians would never consider getting a fake degree, I suppose if you were clever enough you might be able to get away with it and fool people since music isn
Posted by fake degree on Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 06:54 AM
"Real musicians would never consider getting a fake degree"
+1
Posted by Curtis in Moscow on Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 02:10 AM
+1
Well at least they can't actually harm anyone with these fake degrees. How about those unfiversities that were issuing fake PA degrees.
That's insane...
Posted by Jewish Music in Texas on Sun May 16, 2010 at 08:02 AM
That's insane...
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