Two kinds of story, both first-person and both checked by our team: scam stories — how it started, what was promised, what it cost — and student stories from verified students already abroad, showing the help they provide and what they wish they'd known. Every story is mapped to the college, city and country it concerns. Cases marked 📰 From the news are compiled by our team from published reporting, with sources linked — not first-person accounts.
Inha University College of Medicine in Incheon draws a surprising number of searches on this site from India and elsewhere in South Asia, usually with the phra…
📍 Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea, Republic of
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, runs a College of Health Sciences that is accredited by the Medical and Dental Council of Nige…
📍 Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) College of Health Sciences, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Rokhan Institute of Higher Education in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, is a private institution whose Faculty of Medicine is listed in the World Directory of M…
📍 Rokhan Institute of Higher Education Faculty of Medicine, Jalalabad, Afghanistan
The University of Bahri is a public university in Khartoum North, inaugurated in 2011, with a College of Medicine in the World Directory of Medical Schools. Li…
📍 University of Bahri College of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan
Elrazi University is a private university in Khartoum with a medical faculty listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools. Its page is among the most searc…
Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira state, is home to two medical schools in the World Directory: the public University of Gezira, one of Sudan's oldest medical …
📍 Gezira College of Medical Sciences and Technology, Wad Medani, Sudan
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences in Taxila is a private college established in 2016, affiliated to the National University of Medical Sciences, with a hundr…
📍 HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, Taxila, Pakistan
Al-Nafees Medical College in Islamabad is a private college affiliated to Isra University, listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools and teaching MBBS s…
Gambat Medical College, part of the Pir Abdul Qadir Shah Jeelani Institute of Medical Sciences in Khairpur district, is a government college. Its MBBS seats ar…
📍 Gambat Medical College of Pir Abdul Qadir Shah Jeelani Institute of Medical Sciences (PAQSJIMS), Gambat, Pakistan
Watim Medical and Dental College in Rawalpindi is one of dozens of private colleges in Pakistan that admit MBBS students on merit lists published under the reg…
📍 Watim Medical and Dental College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
The World Directory of Medical Schools lists the College of Medicine of Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUST) as a public school, teaching in Engli…
📍 Sudan University of Science and Technology College of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan
Zimbabwe's largest hospital group, Parirenyatwa in Harare, caught 33 people presenting fake medical qualifications as doctors or tutors in 2023 and a further 1…
Zambian police announced the arrest of two men who had, they said, operated as doctors at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka — the country's largest — …
The United States is where the international verification system was built, and it still produces credential frauds at scale — most recently in nursing, a prof…
The United Kingdom's General Medical Council is one of the most thorough regulators in the world. In 1995 it registered, as a doctor, a woman who had dropped o…
📍 Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
In January 2024, Nigeria's National Universities Commission announced it had uncovered dozens of fraudulent degrees obtained by Nigerian students from institut…
Free zones are built to make it easy to open a business. In Dubai, that ease was used to open medical schools. Gulf News reported in September 2018 on three in…
Not every ruined medical education involves a fraudster. Sri Lanka's SAITM case involved a licensed institution, a court that ruled in the students' favour, an…
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.
Every scam story is either linked to an email-verified, team-reviewed fraud report (when it names someone) or describes the pattern without naming anyone. Every student story comes from a student we've verified — identity, college and live location.