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Re: Almeda University Employee Expose Fake Program
Posted by Joe Blow (real name) on 4/23/08
How do you expect us to take you seriously if you won't give
your real name, and offer some real evidence. On 8/04/07, Peter wrote:
> Almeda University Employee Expose Fake Program.
>
> Emily Gardner (not her real name), who worked for the
> company during two weeks in February as an office temp,
> says the operation astonished her. During her first day on
> the job, office managers explained that Blue Pearl was an
> Internet fulfillment company that processed work for other
> companies.
>
> “They said they had other customers, but the only orders I
> ever saw were from Almeda College and University,” Gardner
> recalls. She and another temp worker were asked to come up
> with aliases to use whenever they walked into or phoned
> the office. (Gardner asked for anonymity because she is
> looking for work and fears legitimate employers won’t hire
> her.) She also received a brief orientation in which
> company managers explained that Almeda conferred degrees
> for life experience.
>
> “They were trying to make it seem as legitimate as
> possible, like, if you work hard your whole life, why
> shouldn’t you be able to get a college degree?” says
> Gardner, who, before moving to Florida, had worked in
> human resources. “I thought it was hysterical,” she
> says. “I have an HR background, and I wouldn’t have dared
> to put something like that for college experience on my
> résumé.”
> Gardner says it didn’t take her long to learn that Almeda
> was a very popular virtual school. One day, she was paid
> to send hundreds of e-mails to Almeda graduates. “We were
> looking for testimonials,” she remembers, “so we wanted to
> know if their lives had changed after getting their
> degrees.”
>
> She was also paid to fill out hundreds of requests for
> college transcripts. She was taught to read the request,
> pull up a template for the transcript that met the
> qualifications for the degree and plug in the
> information. “They had templates for hundreds of bachelor
> of science degrees in everything and bachelor of arts
> degrees in anything — I’m telling you, anything,” she
> says. “All I had to do is plug in all the information in
> the right space — I only had to do that much — and I
> couldn’t even keep up.”
>
> Gardner was fired in February, but Blue Pearl Services is
> still in operation. Its owners, Brett Loebel and Gerald
> Enowitch, did not respond to requests for an interview.
> Florida law requires any educational institution or any
> business that does work for one to register for a license
> with the state Department of Education. Blue Pearl
> Services has not done so, and if it is indeed taking
> orders for Almeda College and University, then it is in
> violation of state regulations.
>
>
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