Columbus, Georgia Ledger-Enquirer article

In the Columbus, Georgia Ledger-Enquirer, May 1, 2004: How real is real? Here's a selection:

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I used to regularly advocate, on a.e.d., that people who were seriously considering enrolling in an unwonderful school simply go to OfficeMax and buy some parchment, then spend a little time with Word or Publisher and simply make their own fake diploma.

There is really no difference in paying for a diploma from a fraud like Trinity and printing your own. In both cases, the degree is worthless, and you're counting on deception and your employer or whomever not to check up on it. But the box of paper from OfficeMax will cost maybe 10 bucks and you can do other things with the other 49 sheets of paper, while the Trinity degree will set you back considerably more.

Of course, either degree will eventually blow up and cost you a lot more than what you paid for it... but poeple who are willing to go for a fake in the first place generally don't care.

 

verification and T-shirts, though

Hi Chip,

But with the pre-printed kind the client also gets a web site and a contact email address to share with potential employers. And there's always the suspense of scanning the news for reports of recent firings of fellow alumni, not to mention the satisfaction of commiserating with others on a secret discussion board.

Also you can buy T-shirts and stuff.

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I used to suggest that as well. Since then though one state (Kansas?) has passed a law that printing your own diploma is a felony while claiming one bought from TC&U would only be a misdemeanor. So it's gotten more complicated but people that would do either of the choices may not care that it is a felony rather than a misdemeanor?

 

Oh, it can get so complicated! What if a Kansan uses a [name of a national printing/copying chain goes here] in Missouri to print the diploma? What if the Kansan's ISP is in Nebraska? FTC involvement? FBI?

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