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[mrsquirrel]

Back home in the UK there used to be regular coverage of immigrants who were scamming the benefit system in the UK. These could be asylum seekers or just normal immigrants to the UK.

The Red Tops loved to splash the news across the front page about how the country was being cheated out of billions of pounds per year. It was also easier to point a finger at them rather than the resident cheaters and scammers.

I was thinking about it last night and how similar it is to the ' fake degree teachers' here and the coverage they get in media here cheating the system and robbing children of a genuine degreed TEFL'r

[Tony_Balony]

Thats an accurate analogy, thats why all good people fight both fraudsters.

[huck]

Except teachers with fake degrees are still teaching English and providing a satisfactory service, so no one is really losing any money.

Also, I just learned that an acquaintance has been sentenced to a year in jail for using a fake degree. I don't agree with what he did, but I don't really think the sentence fits the crime. They should've just put him on the immigration blacklist.

[thegadfly]

Huck, you don't think fraud warrants jail time? If that is what you mean -- that defrauding someone shouldn't lead to jail time, then no problem....

If I go to a fellow that is posing as a doctor, and he diagnoses and treats me, and I later find out he is NOT a doctor, just pretending to be one, with a fake degree...even if his diagnosis were correct, and his treatment helpful...ah, nevermind, folks will be splitting hairs. I'm sorry your friend got caught for committing a crime and punished according to the law.