Fake Degree School Boss run road

[Scion]

sorry to bump up an old thread... but looks like more fake degree holders are coming :ph34r:

 

 

Education Ministry posts alert after its logo is used in Facebook ad

Published on Aug 16, 2013

7:20 AM

 

By Pearl Lee

 

Get a degree "approved" by the Ministry of Education (MOE) based on your "life experiences". No classes needed.

 

A Facebook advertisement for what appears to be an online degree mill that uses the MOE logo has been making the rounds, prompting the ministry to put out an alert to the public.

 

The advertisement, which links users to a Bestprofessionaldegrees.com website, is also accompanied by text that reads "Approved by the Singapore Ministry of Education & US Department of Education. Enroll now".

 

On the website, users are asked to leave their particulars and indicate the degree in which they are interested. Options include an associate degree, a bachelor's degree, a master's degree and a doctorate degree.

 

Background story

 

EXERCISE CARE

 

Members of the public are advised to conduct their checks on the authenticity of the degrees offered.

 

- A Ministry of Education spokesman, on the unauthorised use of the MOE logo on Facebook

 

 

 

Online exchange

 

ST: Are the degrees recognised by the Ministry of Education in Singapore?

 

Student counsellor: We get your documents approved and attested by the US government and Singapore Embassy in USA.

 

ST: How about the Singapore MOE?

 

Student counsellor: What is MOE?

 

What we do is we take down your life experience, that is your working experience and your past educational qualification, convert them into credit hours... We make sure that the documents are shipped out to you in the next 10 working days.

[Zniper]

my colleague once told me, "we oso studied very hard for our papers", so those w/o papers or real papers shld not whine so much...

nowadays fake degree getting more and more... omg!!!

[Jman888]

Only 34 mths for such a fu(k face? Sigh

 

 

they hear you, now add another 32 months    

 

Business school owner jailed 51/2 years for scam

Jasmine Osada Mypaper

Thursday, Oct 15, 2015

 

Benny Yap Chee Mun, owner of the now defunct Brookes Business School, was sentenced on 25 July 2013 to two years and 10 months in jail for cheating three banks into lending $145,550 to bogus students.

 

Photo: The Straits Times

 

A BUSINESS school owner who cheated hundreds of students of almost $2.2 million in a fake degree scam was yesterday sentenced to 51/2 years in jail.

 

Ben Yap Chee Mun, 45, who owns Brookes Business School, pleaded guilty on Sept 7 to 30 charges of cheating, while another 282 charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.

 

Yap would train employees to sell various degree programmes purportedly offered by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and one Brookes University. However, Brookes Business School was not authorised to offer RMIT programmes and Brookes University was in fact a sham institution set up by Yap.

 

The employees, who were called directors, were given commissions of between 40 per cent and 60 per cent of the course fees for each student recruited. Most students paid between $10,000 and $20,000 each.

 

In one case, a student by the name of Yeo Siew Chin paid $16,800 to Brookes Business School, believing she was signing up for an RMIT Bachelor of Business Management (Marketing) programme.

 

The scam, which spanned a period of about four years from 2004 to 2008, was elaborate. Potential students were told that Brookes Business School was certified by CaseTrust and the Ministry of Education. Students were given documents such as transcripts bearing the letterheads and logos of RMIT or Brookes University to make the programmes appear genuine. Yap had even set up a company called Global Accreditation Commission in Britain to accredit Brookes University.

 

Yap's ruse began to unravel in December 2008, when Clarence Lim, his business partner at Brooke's Business School, lodged a police report that someone representing former students was trying to extort money from the school. The police report stated that several Brookes Business School students had complained that their RMIT degrees were not recognised by the Australian university.

 

At about the same time, information regarding the unrecognised degrees was spreading among the students and ex-students at Brookes Business School, leading to more police reports.

 

Subsequent investigations uncovered Yap's fake degree scams, as well as another "cash-back scheme" scam that cheated three banks into disbursing student loans.

 

The scam saw Brookes Business School recruiting students to apply for study loans based on inflated course fees. The excess sums were then shared between the school, students and others who acted as brokers for the scheme.

 

Yap was sentenced to two years and 10 months in jail in March last year after being convicted of 13 charges related to the "cash-back scheme" scam. Another 120 charges related to the scam were taken into consideration for this current sentence.

 

The 51/2 year sentence will run concurrently with last year's sentence, which Yap is currently serving.

 

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