International MBA Institute, an SRU product

The domains graduate-now.net, graduate-now.com, and graduate-now.org reside in the MarkeTrends IP address space, with IPs 216.171.217.206, 216.171.217.203, and 216.171.217.104 respectively.

The domain registration for graduate-now.org is masked through the use of RegisterFly.com, a "whois protection service," but the others show SRU registrations:

Domain name: graduate-now.com
Registrant Contact:
SRU
Dr. Jallah Faciann, Director ([email protected])
377 47 528-637
73 Carey Street
S&G Building West Wing
monrovia, 00000
LR

Domain name: graduate-now.net
Registrant Contact:
SRU
Dr. Jallah Faciann, Director ([email protected])
377 47 528-637
73 Carey Street
S&G Building West Wing
monrovia, 00000
LR

It is the graduate-now.org domain that houses the site for the "International MBA Institute," which "offers the Master of Business Administration Degree based on an assessment of current knowledge attained through experience." IMI says that "if your work/life experience and prior education are sufficient to pass our rigorous online exam, then you could earn an accredited MBA degree in one sitting."

Potential exam-takers are informed that "upon passing you can IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD YOUR GRADUATION PACKAGE containing your DIGITAL MBA Degree and Transcript which you may printout, Save or email to employers or schools." In reality a client needs to pay IMI before the electronic documents will be delivered.

The test comprises 281 multiple-choice questions. Many appear to pertain to business matters, but about half are a kind of personality assay: the "Business Administration" section presents 146 yes/no response items like "Do you wake up happy most of the time?" (I answered "yes") and "Some people think of me as quite charming." (guess how I responded to that one!).

I zoomed through the test, usually reading the questions before picking an answer, but not paying much attention to what I was doing.

The site's web page that informs test-takers how they did is probably built from one of the more recent high school sites. The body of the page informed me that

but the heading near the top of the page showed this:

High School GPA 3.50
Associate Degree 3.50

Your High School GPA is 3.50 and Associate Degree GPA is 3.50


AEIT is the PayPal account used by a number of SRU-related activities. By the way, if you look at that older thread, you'll find this mailing address for AEIT:

AEIT
ATTN: Ms. Hensley, Collection Agent
1812 Marsh Road, Suite 6 - 242
Wilmington, DE 19810.

The name of the sender on the scan of the Airborne Express envelope sent from the A+ Institute to Abul Kalaam Azad is A. Hensley.

I went to the PayPal page to find this:

PayPal is the secure payment processor for your seller, AEIT.

Pay To: AEIT
Payment For: MBA3.50
Amount: $599.00 USD
Total Amount: $599.00 USD

So there you have it. An MBA in less than an hour.

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