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Diplomas, prescriptions and a hospital consultation generated with AI: the Calvados case that shows what a forged credential now costs to produce
Most of the forged diplomas on this site were produced the old way, with stationery, seals and a printer. In July 2025 police in Normandy arrested a man who had done it with software.
According to France 3 Normandie, officers in Calvados stopped a man found in possession of a fake prescription pad. The investigation that followed found that he had used artificial-intelligence tools to produce a range of documents: medical prescriptions, attestations and university diplomas, which he used to obtain medicines and to pass himself off as a doctor, going as far as simulating an emergency consultation at the Caen university hospital. He was sent to prison. What's Up Doc has reported a separate French case of a woman who practised for more than three years without any diploma.
The case is small, and it is here because of what it signals. The cost of a convincing diploma, letterhead or certificate has fallen to almost nothing. A generated document can carry the right fonts, the right seal, a plausible signature and a plausible registrar's name, and it can be made in minutes for any university in the world. Visual inspection, which was never a reliable check, is now worthless.
That changes nothing about the real check and everything about how much you should rely on it. A document is verified by asking the issuer, through the issuer's own verification service or registrar, using contact details obtained independently of the person who gave you the document. Regulators have moved to primary-source verification for exactly this reason; students and families should do the same, in miniature, with every admission letter, fee receipt, "recognition certificate" and agent licence they are shown.
A letter from a university that looks perfect proves only that someone had a computer. The university's own confirmation is the evidence, and it is the step the Calvados "doctor" could not generate.
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