This is a new one on me. Apparently an online Chinese scam operation has copied a number of pages from Reed College’s website, changed each use of the word “Reed” to “Redwood,” and presented itself as the University of Redwood.
Officials at Reed suspect the site is part of a scheme to collect application fees from prospective students in Hong Kong and Asia. After collecting a fee, “a shrewd scammer could wait several weeks, then issue a rejection letter, and the student would never know,” said Martin Ringle, chief technology officer at Reed.