Getting a University Degree with ask any study or exams sound too good to be true can be a part of music and university destroyed this guy and actually like it or not hundreds of thousands of people have full and for pledges like this from fighting an online universities do you think these people are ready that these people that. Want to want to investigates the Pakistani Company allegedly pulling the strings behind the scam and the lengths they will guards are to keep the money flowing sunsets its the best and. Getting a degree isnt a z. For most students it entails years of study and hard work. Increasingly millions of students trying to gain vasile qualifications by studying online. But not all online degrees are what they see. Sanitations to everyone if you want to meet the head of the department of law a new Food University which says its based in the United States we should one of the most renowned faculty in the world new food promises no more marathon study sessions no more cramming for those dreaded exams at all at a bargain price or education standards and protocols are constantly breached that to provide our students the very best possible service. For new foods website claims to have a presence in more than 180 countries. And its not the only Online University selling its global reach. Claims to be the Worlds Largest university which was news to benjamin an investigative journalist who specializes in stories about Higher Education. Big. Time with. Something that can step by step by step and then the floodgates open Must University was the 1st institution we came across. Benjamin quickly discovered a lot of Different University websites with some very curious similarities there are all the websites for the universities have the same template. They have a banner at the top that says the name of the university the colors are different. There is a little picture of a woman with a head ready to take a. Little box here that tells you about the kinds of course is that you can do at university. And the other thing that is very similar is that when you log on to these various websites they will do a pop up and say were having a special offer on scholarships callers now but that happens on every single website. The websites also often feature indorsements from start like lecture ethan turner at California Port University teaching a California University is a great achievement in my academic career but we were unable to find any lecturer called ethan turner or indeed any university called california poor when we searched for the address given on the website we ended up at what appears to be a mexican butcher shop i would say its only obvious when you start to scratch i was shocked at how obvious it was after just a very small amount of scratching below the surface dramatic university claim studying he would bring you a step closer towards professional excellence and features the glowing testimonial from one of its students to remount was an awesome experience for me i was able to earn my keep and leadership and Education Administration but when we checked out dramani address instead of an impressive University Campus we found a teacher. Schock. The common denominator between these websites is a Company Called exact exact worlds leading i Teach Company founded the 1st time i heard about exact words from a source of my in. Abu dhabi he basically said me. An email saying ive been offered a scholarship from this university and it just sounds fishy to me check them out and. The more you found out about them the more you realize that. X. X. Owners say its pakistans biggest and most successful i take company. To its critics its the worlds biggest agreement selling bogus degrees to hundreds of thousands of customers. Exact now has a Global Presence in 6 continents 120 countries and 1300 cities. Except located in the hospital pakistans biggest city caracas he claims that he left them 10 years its grown into a 1000000000 Dollar Company employs more than 25000 workers. Pockets on the ex or school but just 1000000000. 00 but which i. Accept is the creation of one man show web shop. In 1997 mr Shoaib Ahmed Shaykh embarked on a journey to create a company that would become a household name in every industry but only a mix of some meat that he not me but not im not a. Big it says not on me. As shakes company exact group so too did his reputation as a business mogul in pakistan. But in may 25th any pakistanis woke up to some shocking news. I think it feels safe a claim by it out of beyond left us feeling money learning time and time approximate by and large only shake youve been arrested and charged with being at the center of an astonishing complex web of fraudulent activity there are allegations that these were all fake big reasons and then just by being a certain amount of money you can buy a degree of malcolm i live a double exempt not. Points i need to get out im going to flat on my exec she asked me to get economic effect. Shake insists that his Company Simply makes software which businesses of all types including online universities can use to find customers his loyal shall cut hi out says shake cannot be held responsible for what happens between customers and online universities that use x. X. Software the exit function on loop around the called send food and has had mrs do that with misty providing and information on behalf of the university to speak goodness to fuck and fish. And shakes lawyer stresses that his client has not been convicted of any crimes that i know has been coming. Then it has to be proved that it has to be mccain that is has to be sure indeed. This is unfair unjust. But when the pakistani authorities raided accesses offices in may 25th jane they found a mountain of compelling evidence. There were hundreds of thousands of blank degrees to bigots lists of hundreds of fake universities thank you count showing payments amounting to millions of dollars and tens of thousands of names and Contact Details the customers around the world. There are also recordings of hundreds of hours of phone calls where representatives of the fake universities demand payments from often terrified customers need to pay an amount of and 1000. 00 for just a small amount youre actually putting at risk Everything Else but ive got to be there youre sort of like your crew appeared not among the recordings was stored on hard drives at x. X. Centers local media reported the police also found proof. Of evidence being destroyed with documents being burnt files dumped into the sink and computer hard drive smashed points on the landing where the body. Despite the arrests and seizure of evidence many of the online universities linked to exact a still up and running and the pakistani authorities have not taken steps to shut them down so what actually goes on in these degrade operations. Had right. Hello is this the l r a university and no. No university. To find out research is in london in singapore made a series of coals to some of the universities linked to extracts network. Obvious told about Online University. To get agree. The coup was presented themselves as lacking any of the kind of academic qualifications normally required by legitimate universities but very came to biodegrade the response. And positive. Yeah in the online world it doesnt take long to find office the thing too good to refuse. Does not mean experience based program. For these online universities a lack of basic academic. Simply doesnt matter potential custom is a told Life Experience is enough ok but i wouldnt actually have to take any exams with a university. A whole range of degree and diploma courses offered or at a bargain price. Without having to do any actual studying or take a single exam the lucky student is suing the proud recipient of an impressive looking stupid showing that hate or she has been granted a degree from a world renowned university. That in may 2015 the New York Times published its own investigation which for the 1st time identified x. X. As the worlds biggest agreement. At 1st the expos i threatened to bring the roof down on the company. One might lie on my money or career go. With the story of accept and the fake degrees was far from over. Karate is a new tory sleeve violent season with frequent clashes between criminal gangs. Against this backdrop the exact controversy has stood concerns for the safety of some of those linked to the case. d after 15 months on remand Shoaib Ahmed Shaykh was released from prison on trial and the investigation same to grind to a halt. Shaikh refused repeated requests for a need to be but we were able to speak to his lawyer. He has been deprived of not on the promise liberty remain in jail for many months as well as lost on his business and after the knees. Trying to establish his business again and because he can pretend to. Accept claims its Financial Success makes plain why the company has been targeted for investigation. But the prosecutors who worked on the case have little doubt about what had been going on. Their bodies were more. These were our journey to get. A lawyer seller who didnt come to port it was part of the Prosecution Team building the case against shake and extract was call 42471468. But i will say he but i get short cut a lot of the use of the law i think you should not get a yeah game on your dignity on the world lead. Well University Module to me. As well as the wealth of documentary evidence of psych degrees being produced on an industrial scale by extract the prosecution. Child statements from key witness since. The court will be caught i get a look at our peril of these get on we get to be ms it seems but done a double confessional ban on all of these on the idea. I mean it got a lot of that they dont need to get even out there. At one stage the prosecution had 79 witnesses. Being karate Legal Proceedings do not always go smoothly prosecution witnesses began to change their minds about testifying against exact. Yobbos i doubt. His will and that the it wasnt that would not allow you get. The protection coming before the guy you quote on the 9 witnesses are demanding and on the dignitas not a single victim come fall out of what again is the exit again they had to get and you lose out on that accuse but if i did your duty but i shant i. All i want is that they use every guy you have to but you will but a lot of it is i think ive got them on the hot but in the middle of. The local media have reported threats of violence and intimidation towards prosecution witnesses from Police Investigating except to even the prosecution lawyers themselves. Can the poor and 3 of the lawyers withdrew from the prosecution. There is no evidence that shake or anyone connected with exact was involved with any threats over while its after 15 months of legal arguments and allies shake and the other say new manages were released on what the prosecution considered a technicality staged to do nick up provision. Even though it was just at the mall the day i got a clue good to. Me. That legion a god he says i thought it dont all been pity how you mean. To hes defended his shake was freed because the case against him fell apart here for it is against of no evidence so far. The weakness is those who have been because. They had a straight marriage and only 9 part of militancy is out and ending. The prosecution has fairly to establish its case since the very beginning. As the prosecution case began to crumble the embarrassed asked. One of the prosecution lawyers who had withdrawn earlier to resume the case. Here is jamil talking about the exact case on Pakistani Television in august 27th. Im going to talk. About the new party youve got a man who was on my not. Somebody federal record on the net manning be a minister of the water you prosecutors didnt have a case on a basically home some combined opinion he has to have evidence be the hotshot s. Open and shut case evidence came to me about a month of december that he has been and he doesnt know when he renewed his work on the accept case jamil received anonymous threats of violence then in september 26th his home was attacked with a hand grenade operator de monte. And in the heat of. The i dont want to get into details about germany of office. No one was injured in the attack and no evidence has been presented then or since to link it in any way to exact. Since the grenade attack jamil announced he would play no further pot in the prosecution he declined to comment further. But in a previous interview he described the high stakes involved in the exact prosecution. I thought would. Be a dozen 1000000. 00 per month. In fact the u. S. Department of justice says that x. X. Has collected at least 140. Dollars from customers worldwide tens of thousands of americans are thought to have bought degrees from universities linked to the company but no american has been willing to travel to pakistan to pursue you a grievance the. A former senior figure of Pakistans Federal Investigation Agency ahmad jeffrey has been following the case. For the door to have trust in the system in pakistan the School District in august has the money as a club. In order to go or have some you know then the system does nurse new honest people coming to the cordon and give rigorous. Work but what happened and they will back. People arent that many come into this. Without witnesses willing to appear in course and with prosecution lawyers too frightened to continue the case against exact collapsed. Shake was granted by a judge proviso cutty of a morgue who has since admitted to a high of course the took abroad of the 5000. 00 to relay shot. The judge will grant have been recently he agreed that he too money in the. Case is this happens was the people dont operate a National Issue you know greater the number of other characters its number but they have the money and there are free money to give it to people if youre america dollars method of money and this happened everything. In these characters the mafia the great together. Its a matter of Public Record that universities link to access that have sold hundreds of thousands of degrees to Online Students around the world. And some of these degree holders have taken up positions where genuine qualifications are crucial. These lists was seized by the pakistani authorities when they raided x. X. Premises there are thousands of names of individuals who have been able to take up professional positions sometimes with safety is an issue even though these qualifications a bogus. In Southeast Asia alone we found thousands of fake degree holders in malaysia. Singapore. And thailand some are working as doctors nurses teaches and engineers. Thousands of people employed in safety critical jobs while holding bogus qualifications it alarms dr rahman formerly of pakistans Higher Education commission it could be a huge disaster because medical degrees in your medical doctors who are practicing medicine without knowing medicine counters they are proud of them they are in the field of accountancy without knowing anything about accounts and this applies across the feeling various fields in 2016 a member of the newly elected government of myanmar had to issue a humiliating apology after one of these impressive standing qualifications turned out to have been purchased from x. X. Degree mills. It was revealed the politician you cure wins masters and doctorate degrees in finance came from the nonexistent Brooklyn Park university despite this revelation you cure we continue to serve as minister for planning and finance. Theres no way of knowing how many of x. X. Hundreds of thousands of customers around the world witnessed it. And how many would knowingly buying a fake degree to get a job they were not qualified to hold. For years after the allegations against 1st made headlines fake universities a still out there looking for their next easy. Going to just a couple of 1000. 00 i could get american d. Green and its become a full fledged chemist it sounds a little bit too good to be true. So i dont really trust that because from what i read your part of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cities that are completely fake or an online there are only a Company Called x. I where are you right now. Where you based. Well i find that quite confusing because for most of what i read your actually an office in pakistan working fax act and crap case that not true. But how do you know others 1000000 of us stevie nicks in University Talk to university all your websites and say. Its not me too busy out. On one occasion there was this one guy where i confronted him and said look. You guys are clearly criminals operating out of jail it is somewhere in the world it away you up it. You know terrible humans i killed really skinny people money and and and tommy and he just laughed and it was this really sort of barreling down the food and that was when i really was like well these guys are oh oh not nice people that you know that the thugs that these people are enjoying the hype that that taking thousands of dollars thousands of pounds away from people. Came 20 a change the chief justice of pocket stuff and said that the scandal has tarnished pakistans night making our heads down with shame. It makes me very sad that box on being both portrayed in a negative light and it makes me sad that it has not been properly legally investigated and the decision taken. 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