Careful What You Say

[Someone]

I know this forum is generally hostile to George Gollin and his friends, but I have to say this here.

Many, many cudos to George Gollin and his friends for helping expose the most dangerous mill of them all.

St. Regis was not like other mills, it was an almost perfect fraud operation, but only people who have had a direct, first hand experience with them will be able to fully understand what I mean.

George Gollin and friends performed a public service and this should be acknowledged. Dixie and co. have done great harm to many people.

I want some of want you're on.  Maybe not.  Seems like Gollin butt odor.

St. Regis was an amateur operation that was nowhere near the biggest and certainly not the slickest.  It pales in comparison to Almeda.  They got caught because they didn't move the server and records out of the US.

How could Dixie do great harm when they sold maybe 1% of fake degrees.  All the rest are still operating just fine.  Hell I might start one myself, outside the US.  Maybe I'll call it London Institute of Applied Research and Medicine.  Gollin is an instant expert prima donna and nothing more.

Almeda and other similar outfits are obvious to anyone that they are diploma mills. There is no way they can pass as legitimate or accredited institutions, and their degrees are probably accepted only by some clueless employers in the private sector.

Despite the campaigns launched against it at certain discussion forums - which very few people visit anyway - for a number of years St. Regis was able to convince not only prospective applicants, but also professional societies, accredited universities, educational authorities and all sorts of employers that they were a legitimate university. No other mill has ever been able to do that, at least not to such extent and so convincingly. And it would probably have continued doing so if George Gollin had not initiated action against it, both in Liberia and the U.S., which led to its eventual demise.

Dixie and Co. were probably one step off from buying the entire Liberian government and all public officials. According to some information, they had started similar "negotiations" with some neighboring African countries too. They definitely had the money to do that. Fortunately, they were stopped on their tracks just on time.