05-28-2007, 04:32 AM
Here's an example:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.educa...0115750359
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From: Shiela Jones - view profile
Date: Thurs, Sep 27 2001 2:02 am
Hi BGT,
I am surprised that you have never heard of the International College of Hotel Management Incorporated in Adelaide.
It is one of the best diploma mills ever devised (except for the fact that it lost 1.8 million dollars of taxpayers' money). One of the clever people behind it is none other than former a.e.d. and degreeinfo.com contributor George Brown. George Brown used to run a site www.virtualuniversities.net is which he had a guide on how to spot a degree mill.
Unfortunately for George Brown, when the criteria (such as operating from a PO Box, being an incorporated company, allowing life experience credits and allowing graduation entirely online) were applied to the ICHM where he worked, it was rated as a DEGREE MILL. This was according to George Brown's own criteria which he had used for years to label other institutions degree mills.
This was unfortunate as George Brown was being groomed as the heir apparent to Dr John Bear who had to disappear as well after his honety was called into question, links with degree mills exposed along with his penchant for prostitutes. Most supporters of George Brown and John Bear have been exposed as sexual deviants, perverts, felons and racists.
It turns out that George Brown, as the "online content manager" at the ICHM, was selling 26 week bachelor degrees to draft dodging Asians for $11,500 completely against the rules. This was in addition to the dressing up of cheap TAFE courses that were sold on as degrees in the same way.
A clear death threat was issued online to a poster called Benny advising him to "get over it or die". This is the SECOND time George Brown has been involved with issuing death threats online.
The long and the short of it is that www.virtualuniversities.net
disappeared, George Brown disappeared the .com, .com.au and the .edu websites of the ICHM disappeared and an investigation was launched into the activities of the ICHM in general and George Brown in particular.
George Brown has been "helping police with their enquiries" and has recently been allowed out. The enquiries center around the loss of $1.8 million dollars of public money caused by incompetent management covered up with fraudulent accounting. The South Australian Government was conned by George Brown and some dodgy convicted felons into backing the scheme with promises of huge returns that could only ever have happened if the ICHM broke its own rules. The loss of $1.8 million dollars was the direct result.
Revised versions of the ICHM sites have been restored and on his release George Brown erected a home page to replace the ERROR:404 OBJECT NOT FOUND message which was there for two months.
Questions in this newsgroup, and one on degreeinfo.com asking George Brown to post up and explain himself, or even to post up and deny the allegations have gone unanswered.
Currently the only poster to challenge the above accusations is "nobody" at xganon.com.
A small point to note. This newsgroup used to be plagued by spam postings through an anonimizer which would swing into action whenever George Brown was criticised. They all used to start "What a Buffoon I have been...".
When George Brown disappeared, so did the anonymous poster.
Coincidence?
Go to googlegroups (deja.com) and type in a few key words from the above explanation and you will see what I mean.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.educa...0115750359
Quote
From: Shiela Jones - view profile
Date: Thurs, Sep 27 2001 2:02 am
Hi BGT,
I am surprised that you have never heard of the International College of Hotel Management Incorporated in Adelaide.
It is one of the best diploma mills ever devised (except for the fact that it lost 1.8 million dollars of taxpayers' money). One of the clever people behind it is none other than former a.e.d. and degreeinfo.com contributor George Brown. George Brown used to run a site www.virtualuniversities.net is which he had a guide on how to spot a degree mill.
Unfortunately for George Brown, when the criteria (such as operating from a PO Box, being an incorporated company, allowing life experience credits and allowing graduation entirely online) were applied to the ICHM where he worked, it was rated as a DEGREE MILL. This was according to George Brown's own criteria which he had used for years to label other institutions degree mills.
This was unfortunate as George Brown was being groomed as the heir apparent to Dr John Bear who had to disappear as well after his honety was called into question, links with degree mills exposed along with his penchant for prostitutes. Most supporters of George Brown and John Bear have been exposed as sexual deviants, perverts, felons and racists.
It turns out that George Brown, as the "online content manager" at the ICHM, was selling 26 week bachelor degrees to draft dodging Asians for $11,500 completely against the rules. This was in addition to the dressing up of cheap TAFE courses that were sold on as degrees in the same way.
A clear death threat was issued online to a poster called Benny advising him to "get over it or die". This is the SECOND time George Brown has been involved with issuing death threats online.
The long and the short of it is that www.virtualuniversities.net
disappeared, George Brown disappeared the .com, .com.au and the .edu websites of the ICHM disappeared and an investigation was launched into the activities of the ICHM in general and George Brown in particular.
George Brown has been "helping police with their enquiries" and has recently been allowed out. The enquiries center around the loss of $1.8 million dollars of public money caused by incompetent management covered up with fraudulent accounting. The South Australian Government was conned by George Brown and some dodgy convicted felons into backing the scheme with promises of huge returns that could only ever have happened if the ICHM broke its own rules. The loss of $1.8 million dollars was the direct result.
Revised versions of the ICHM sites have been restored and on his release George Brown erected a home page to replace the ERROR:404 OBJECT NOT FOUND message which was there for two months.
Questions in this newsgroup, and one on degreeinfo.com asking George Brown to post up and explain himself, or even to post up and deny the allegations have gone unanswered.
Currently the only poster to challenge the above accusations is "nobody" at xganon.com.
A small point to note. This newsgroup used to be plagued by spam postings through an anonimizer which would swing into action whenever George Brown was criticised. They all used to start "What a Buffoon I have been...".
When George Brown disappeared, so did the anonymous poster.
Coincidence?
Go to googlegroups (deja.com) and type in a few key words from the above explanation and you will see what I mean.
A.A Mole University
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore
