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Kenya's medical regulator spent 2025 closing the country's shadow health system, and the scale of what it found is the context for every "verified doctor" clai…
📍 Nairobi, Kenya
The most reliable scam against foreign students is not a fake college. It is a phone call from someone claiming to be the government of the country they are st…
📍 Washington, United States of America
Vietnam trains a growing number of foreign medical students and sends its own graduates abroad, and its universities issue degrees that are verifiable. The cou…
📍 Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Italy is home to some of Europe's oldest medical schools and to a licensing system built on a state examination and a professional register. It also has a stea…
📍 Bordighera, Italy
In 2023 Indonesia's health system discovered that a person with no medical education had been employed as a doctor for two years, hired online during the pande…
📍 Surabaya, Indonesia
A degree from a real, recognised private university is the hardest kind of fake to detect, because the institution that would verify it is the one that issued …
📍 Hapur, India
The most effective admission frauds do not invent a college. They borrow one. In November 2025 Lucknow police described a consultancy that had borrowed the ide…
📍 Lucknow, India
Lucknow, home to King George's Medical University and a cluster of private colleges, is a natural place for a racket in medical credentials to set up. In Septe…
📍 Lucknow, India
Not every fake medical qualification is a forged MBBS. Some are invented courses with invented boards, sold to people who then open clinics and treat patients …
📍 Surat, India
Seat blocking is a counselling fraud that works in any state where seats left unfilled in the final government round go back to the college to be sold under ma…
📍 Bengaluru, India
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test is the single gate to every MBBS seat in India, and in 2024 more than two million candidates sat it. What happened t…
📍 Hazaribagh, India
Egypt has become a serious destination for foreign medical students, including a growing number from India, Malaysia and Africa, and its public universities ar…
📍 Cairo, Egypt
Bangladesh's private medical colleges enrol thousands of Indian students, mostly from the eastern states, on the strength of proximity, a familiar curriculum a…
📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bishkek is the largest hub in Central Asia for South Asian medical students: tens of thousands of Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis study in its universitie…
📍 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Turkey is one of the larger destinations for foreign medical students in the region, and one of the countries where a degree can be checked instantly on the st…
📍 Ankara, Turkey
Maaref University, also styled the International Medical University, is a private institution in Tripoli whose Faculty of Human Medicine is listed in the World…
📍 Maaref University (IMU) Faculty of Human Medicine, Tripoli, Libya
Xiangya School of Medicine at Central South University in Changsha is one of the oldest and best-regarded medical schools in China, and it appears on the list …
📍 Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
The Frankfurt branch of the European University Cyprus School of Medicine is a genuinely unusual institution: an English-taught medical degree, delivered in Ge…
📍 European University Cyprus School of Medicine Frankfurt Campus, Frankfurt, Germany
A directory row says "agent X, overcharge". A story says how the WhatsApp group started, what the "university letter" looked like, when the fee changed, and what finally gave it away. That's what makes the next family pause before they transfer money.
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