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A degree for S/1,500 over WhatsApp, with a forged SUNEDU seal: Peru's title-forging trade, and the 354 foreign degrees the regulator struck off its register
Peru has one of the more centralised degree registers in Latin America. Every university title, Peruvian or foreign, has to be entered with SUNEDU, the national superintendency for higher education, before it can be used for a licensed profession. That register is exactly what forgers now imitate.
According to La República, in February 2026 sellers were offering complete university titles for around S/1,500 through WhatsApp, delivered within hours, with counterfeit SUNEDU seals and claims that the documents were "endorsed by Minedu", the education ministry. Ministry officials told the paper that a forged document was unlikely to enter the official systems because of existing controls; the point of the forgery was to fool employers and clients who never check those systems.
The register has also been used in the other direction. Infobae reported in July 2023 that SUNEDU's degrees-and-titles unit had found 354 titles or degrees issued abroad that did not meet the requirements for registration, and annulled their national registration so that nobody could practise a profession on a degree of doubtful origin. RPP earlier reported SUNEDU identifying 46 programmes offered without authorisation and three "universities" that did not exist in law, 37 of the programmes in health sciences such as nursing, neonatology and ultrasound.
For a student, the Peruvian pattern is worth understanding even if Peru is not your destination. A foreign medical degree is only as good as the regulator's willingness to register it, and regulators do revoke registrations when they find the issuing institution or the paperwork does not match. A seller who promises a registered title "in hours" is selling the seal, not the education. Check the register yourself, on the regulator's own site, and treat any intermediary who offers to "handle registration" for a fee as the point where the fraud begins.
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