September 21, 2001
Diploma Forgery Goes Electronic in China; Scholarship Fund in South Africa Is Robbed
Counterfeiters are reportedly finding ways to foil China's new electronic registration system for university diplomas.
In February, the Ministry of Education instituted a national system in which recent graduates are given identification numbers with their diplomas, to become part of an electronic registry intended to counter the widespread counterfeiting of diplomas.
According to government statistics, 600,000 fake diplomas are circulating in China, although many officials
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