Axact degree mill scam INVOLVES Axact
The degree-mill scam involved Axact as the company operating the scheme.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Fazal EP 142 Details
“Axact created from thin air. There was no real university.”
Incident
incident:axact_degree_mill_scam
Also: Axact scam, fake degree scam
The fraud operation described in which fake universities, degrees, certifications, and diplomas were marketed to victims worldwide.
The fraud operation described in which fake universities, degrees, certifications, and diplomas were marketed to victims worldwide.
“This was something that Axact created from thin air. There was no real university.”
“They took money from over 200,000 people around the world”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Axact | Explicit | 142 |
| outgoing | TARGETS | United States | Explicit | 142 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Declan Walsh | Explicit | 142 |
| outgoing | DISCOVERED_BY | Declan Walsh | Explicit | 142 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | FIA | Explicit | 142 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Saleem Qureshi | Uncertain | 142 |
| outgoing | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Pakistan | Attributed | 142 |
Axact degree mill scam INVOLVES Axact
The degree-mill scam involved Axact as the company operating the scheme.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Fazal EP 142 Details
“Axact created from thin air. There was no real university.”
Axact degree mill scam TARGETS United States
Fazal says the scam mostly targeted students in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Gulf states.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Fazal EP 142 Details
“We mostly targeted US, UK, some of Europe”
Axact degree mill scam INVOLVES Declan Walsh
Declan Walsh investigated and documented the Axact scam through reporting.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 142 Details
“he spent two years investigating this story”
Axact degree mill scam DISCOVERED_BY Declan Walsh
Jack presents Declan Walsh’s investigation as exposing the Axact operation.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 142 Details
“published a really good article in the New York Times exposing all the shenanigans that Axact was getting up to”
Axact degree mill scam INVOLVES FIA
The FIA investigated Axact, raided its offices, and gathered evidence for criminal proceedings.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 142 Details
“the FIA was investigating Axact, and yeah, they found enough evidence to open a case”
Axact degree mill scam ASSOCIATED_WITH Saleem Qureshi
Saleem Qureshi was associated with the Belford litigation as the person who claimed responsibility for creating the website; later, the FIA reportedly found that Axact paid him to take the fall.
Uncertain Confidence 92% · Jack Rhysider EP 142 Details
“He admitted that Axact had paid him to take the fall.”
Axact degree mill scam ATTRIBUTED_TO Pakistan
The episode frames the operation as a Pakistani-company scandal and describes Pakistani authorities prosecuting it, but does not claim that Pakistan as a state operated the scam.
Attributed Confidence 78% · Jack Rhysider EP 142 Details
“It looked really bad for a Pakistani company to be so scammy”