University of Wexford

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  1. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Comes now the University of Wexford. Claimed campus in Zurich, Switzerland. Website registered in Romania and in England. Telephone in Arizona. Fax in Springfield, Massachusetts. So the only question remaining is whether this is one of our well-established villains, or someone new in the game.
    www.universityofwexford.org
    Phone (602) 230-4241
    Fax (413) 778-4700
     
  2. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Let's see:

    Campus in Switzerland
    Website registered in England/Romania
    Telephone in Arizona
    Fax in Massachusetts
    Contact professors in Siberia
    Diploma mailed from Tim-buk-too.
    Send all payments to Australia

    This is truly an "International" university!
     
  3. bgossett

    bgossett New Member

    The listed physical address, Bahnhofstrasse 52, CH-8001 Zürich, is also that of a branch of World-Wide Business Centres.

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    Bill Gossett
     
  4. H. Piper

    H. Piper member

    Originally posted by John Bear:
    Comes now the University of Wexford.


    Comes "now"? Why, the universityofwexford.org domain was first registered last month. What took you so long to find out about this, John?
     
  5. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    My guess is that this is somebody who knows what he or she is doing. It's not a first effort and we have probably seen this person's work before.

    It's somebody who is very good at hiding his or her tracks behind a succession of false fronts. My guess, both from the British webhosting and the use of spellings like "programme", that this is the work of a Briton.

    The proprietor obviously knows his or her way around off-shore business services and so on. But I do get the distinct impression that all the Wexford pages were written by the same person. Whether that person is the proprietor or just somebody paid to create the site is hard to say.
     
  6. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    H. Piper writes, "Comes "now"? Why, the universityofwexford.org domain was first registered last month. What took you so long to find out about this, John?"

    I appreciate that it has been around for a month, but I believe the first several hundred doctorates weren't awarded until today.
     
  7. David Yamada

    David Yamada New Member

    Don't give them ideas. "Wexford International University" may be next.
     
  8. I feel a vague sense of familiarity when I look at the website, but I can't definitely match it to any other.

    The contact information is a mailing address, phone/fax, and e-mail (from a free e-mail provider) -- the same as for Devonshire, Glencullen, and Shelbourne -- though they used Ireland and England addresses & free e-mail providers.

    Another similarity -- none of these entities provides an online form to request info or to apply.

    And the language on all the webites is amazing vague.

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    Kristin Evenson Hirst
    DistanceLearn.About.com
     
  9. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    I don't know if it's significant, but besides being a generic British-sounding name, "Wexford" is also both a county and town in the Irish Republic. I found no other 'Wexford' listed for the UK in my Michelin Motoring Atlas for GB and Ireland.

    So, once again, the familiar pattern of a phony school operating from a London area website but with some sort of an Irish angle.
     
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  12. Laser100

    Laser100 New Member

    Wexford University

    I seem to recall, Wexford shared the same unrecognized accreditation that Ravenhurst claimed.

    Paul
     
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