John Bear asks for help finding a no-longer-active diploma mill exposé website

Three or four years ago (this is a guess), a person who worked at the now-huge international diploma mill scam that started as the University of San Moritz (then Palmers Green, then Harrington) put up a website in which he (or she) gave a lot of partial information on the operation: street addresses without saying in which city, people's first names or initials without surnames, etc. I would dearly love to see that site again. (I can see it in my mind's eye: lots of large-type red and blue text.) If anyone has, perchance, archived it, or is more skilled than I in using alexa.com and other sources of archival information, I would be very happy to hear from them.

Thank you.

John Bear
[email protected]
Fax (510) 528-4254

 

I find this listing, but cannot locate the site:

"Bogus University Degree exposure - This site exposes universities such as Harrington, Palmers Green, san Moritz, St. Moritz, which offer bogus doctorate, masters, PhD degrees"

Mousing over the hyperlink reveals an internal redirect number. Clicking on it returns a "server not found" message, but indicates it may have been hosted on www.spree.com sometime in the past.

 

You're onto something, Bill.

Another subscriber sent me these two URLs, which I believe were the correct ones, but both no longer in use:

http://www.dxpnet.com/riot/results.asp?i=Master+P
http://members.spree.com/education/degree/ 

Perhaps the only hope is that someone actually saved them at the time they were active.

John

John Bear
[email protected]

 

This site mentions San Moritz/Palmers Green/Harrington and a few others, but not all of the links are active.

http://www.counterfeitlibrary.com/cl/qual.asp

Other sites have linked Brentwick University with the three above "institutions". Brentwick has a reasonably nice looking website at:

http://www.brentwickuniv.org/

Tony

 

That fixed that!

....and how surprining - the link doesn't work any more

 

Lost sites

You might try checking with the reference librarian at one of the universites near you and see if they might be of any help.
Best of luck,
Mike

 

I have no idea if it is what you are looking for:

http://henryheston.com.cnchost.com/harrington.htm

a few articles here :

http://distancelearn.about.com/library/blpages/blexposeschools.htm#brentwick

http://www.dutchbint.org/xl.php?2001/05/03.php

http://www.sireview.com/articles/bsmaphd_sidebar.html


the owner for henryheston.com is :
Nationwide Marketing Inc. ([email protected])
941-925-1089
FAX: 941-925-1089
PO Box 19611
Sarasota, FL 34276
US

 

Dr. Bear,

If you have candidate urls, check out archive.org. That site has past rendition history of many sites. It is quite an interesting place to browse, though the business model for archive.org is a bit tough to see clearly today -- probably still a bit of .com mindset, but at least you can browse history for free.

Good luck.

 

I think that web.archive.org is a nonprofit, established using a large grant. I don't think it's intended to be profitable... but it IS an amazing resource.