Bad Education

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ex-FBI officer Allen Ezell had been investigating the trade in fake educational qualifications for decades. But when he got tipped off about a so-called degree mill operating out of Pakistan, he couldn’t believe the scale of it. The operation was making hundreds of millions of dollars. Their degrees were bought by doctors, lawyers, pilots—and even politicians. And the whole scam was operating in plain sight—run by a company called Axact, which claimed to be the world’s largest IT company. Allen, together with a bunch of investigative journalists, were eventually able to unmask the world’s largest ever diploma scam. But was that the end of Axact’s activities? A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Back in 2017, a Middle Eastern lawyer will call him Sam, his desperate and I mean desperate
0:15.4	to further his career.
0:18.5	Like millions of people across the world, it was always Sam's goal to work in the US.
0:23.2	Lots of kids dream about being athletes or TV stars.
0:28.4	Sam's dream was to attend a top university like Yale, but not all dreams come true and
0:35.8	Sam never made it to Yale.
0:38.4	He worked his ass off and managed to get a law degree from a university in Europe.
0:44.4	He starts a small firm in his home country.
0:47.7	Things are going pretty good, but the dream of being stateside never left Sam.
0:53.0	He began thinking, what if this law degree would transfer to the US?
0:59.0	I mean, it's not like he wasn't good at his job.
1:03.1	So Sam went where people go when they want to find out how to do something.
1:08.5	Google.
1:10.6	And this is where he stumbles across a website for an American university.
1:16.6	Our aim is to prepare every single student for life beyond the university education by
1:21.3	providing a set of real-world skills and attributes that go far beyond academic knowledge.
1:27.3	Sam saw the website and he was like, ah, this might be the place that could help me realize my dream.
1:36.1	And so he decides to give them a call.
1:48.1	This is actually a real recording of one of the people working at the college talking to Sam.
1:53.3	They tell him about all the services they provide.
1:55.9	How they can take his law degree and convert it so it's valid in the US.
2:00.5	For a fee, of course.
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