The whole business of fake degrees is called "pseudo-credentialing".

According to some sources, Grace Folashade Bent was involved in obtaining fake degrees.

However after his appointment, He and his allies tried to make a fake academic degree and university ranking for him.

Spies can have fake wives, fake degrees, fake interests and fake lives.

Unfortunately even people who sell fake degree nowadays offer "free validation" services including by phone and by mail.

After being pressured by his family, he bought a fake degree from an American Irishman.

Author John Bear, a distance learning and diploma mills expert, has written that fake degrees are risky for buyers and consumers:

The people who sell fake degrees will probably never suffer at all, but the people who buy them often suffer mightily.

Ms. Assefa keeps a file of fake degrees and letters of recommendation.

It has a fraud unit which investigates the sale of fake degrees, sham marriages and bogus job offers to aid residency applications to New Zealand.