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From: declan_murphy@hotmail.com
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Subject: Re: cultural visa to japan
Date: 9 Aug 2006 07:34:00 -0700
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Paul Blay wrote:
> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote ...
> > Paul Blay wrote:
> >> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote ...
> >> >B Anderson wrote:
> >> >> Just get a fake degree... they never check.
> >> >
> >> > Umm, yes they do.
> >>
> >> So the 64 thousand yen question is ... how did the pair of
> >> you 'know'?
> >
> > In my case through the training courses I had to attend at Immigration
> > in order to become a visa proxy. I'm still quite amazed at the quality
> > of fake documents simple desktop publishing can cheaply come up with.
>
> So now I have the tough decision of weighing that up against "Heresay,
> but also my intuition." ;-)

Depends. The intuition came partly from watching some pretty "I really
want one of those" pieces of technology, but also from having documents
from fly-by-night-operations (Harvard, Union Bank of Switzerland etc)
questioned and shown up. The tricky documents are those from less
developed countries. They are too simple to be proved fake, and are not
infrequently genuine docs provided from bribed officials.