December 19, 2003

States Try to Crack Down on Diploma Mills

By WILL POTTER

Emphasis shifts to prosecuting people who buy degrees

Diploma-mill owners are an elusive bunch. They flood e-mail boxes with offers of cheap college degrees, and collect payment through Web sites, then filter that money into overseas bank accounts. When the police try to shut one of the businesses down, the owners just set up shop elsewhere, often in a poor country with weak fraud laws.

States have been paying more attention to diploma mills because their business has been

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