… gets an up close and personal look in today’s Forbes, which proclaims it Scam Capital of America.
Prominent among its scams: Diploma mills.
There’s the diploma mill that sold 10,000 phony college degrees to buyers in 131 countries… The Internet diploma mill was run by Dixie and Steven Randock, both now serving three-year sentences. Degrees included those purportedly from Harvard University. The ringleaders’ partners in crime were, of course, their customers. One was a Spokane deputy federal marshal seeking a promotion who knew what he was getting–and got convicted for it.