The End of The Fake Diplomas Era Has Arrived. A Most Interesting Use of Blockchain

According to Dr George Brown, Academic director of the Think: Education Group,about 30% of professional certificates are falsified worldwide.

London, Jul 24, 2018 (Issuewire.com) - People with fake diplomas are working as safety engineers at nuclear power plants, biological weapons experts, dentists or in medicine, engineering, business management, science and law. There are no jobs fake diploma mills don’t cover.

There are some alarming statistics out there. A former FBI agent, Allen Ezell, estimates half of the new PhDs issued every year in the U.S. are fake.

Despite the crackdown, today you could get a fake diploma online at $200 - $300.All you have to do is a simple online search for “fake diploma”.

You can also choose where you want your diploma to be from, choose the type of degree, the date and you are ready to get hired.

However, according to these websites, they are perfectly legal as they issue the diplomas for “Novelty reasons”, they don’t use copywritten seals or emblems owned by actual schools (even though their design may look similar). They never forget the original administrator’s name. They use a selection of in-house names that look like real signatures.

London Marketing Academy is among the first schools in the world to link their digital marketing courses diplomas to the Ethereum blockchain, making them impossible to forge.

Alexandru Simion, Account Manager, explains the 3 easy steps required to check a blockchain diploma authenticity:

Copy the student's certificate hash from the issued diploma.

Scan the Ethereum blockchain for the copied diploma hash using third-party websites like https://ethplorer.io/

Compare the student name and the issuing address to our London Marketing Academy Ethereum address, displayed on the https://londonmarketingacademy.com/ website.

Using this technology, graduates can now prove the authenticity of their certificates and have a way to share it across their network and recruiters can verify diploma they've received with few clicks.

Documents stored in blockchain can't be forged, changed or removed, and are accessible by anyone.

It will take some time before all schools and institutions can effectively adopt the blockchain secured diploma system but it is the only real solution to the massive diploma mill industry.

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