[polygamous_bat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque

Read his Wikipedia page and tell me he doesn’t sound like your run of the mill crypto scammer.

> He claims that he holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford.[7][8] However, according to him, he did not attend his graduation ceremony to receive his degrees, and therefore, he does not technically possess a BA or an MA.[7]

[evilduck]

In the US attending your graduation ceremony has zero bearing on whether the university recognizes if you achieved a degree or not. Is the UK or Oxford different in this regard? Who cares if someone attended a ceremony. This sounds fraudulent at first glance. People with legit credentials don't need to add technicalities to their claim.

[FireBeyond]

Kinda like Deltec's "Deputy CEO"? (Tether's bank), or even Deltec itself:

At the start of 2021, according to their website, it was a 55 year old bank. By the end of 2021, it was a 70 year old bank!

The bank's website is a WordPress site. And their customers must be unhappy - online banking hasn't worked for nearly two years at this point.

Anyway, their Deputy CEO gave this hilarious interview from his gaming rig. A 33 year old Deputy CEO, who by his LinkedIn claimed to have graduated HEC Lausanne in Switzerland with a Master of Science at the age of 15... celebrating his graduation by immediately being named Professor of Finance at a university in Lebanon. While dividing his spare time between running hedge funds in Switzerland and uhh... Jacksonville, FL.

The name of his fund? Indepedance [sic] Weath [sic] Management. Yeah, okay.

In this hilariously inept interview, he claimed that people's claims about Deltec's money movements being several times larger than all the banking in their country was due to them misunderstanding the country's two banking licenses, the names of which he "couldn't remember right now" (the Deputy CEO of a bank who can't remember the name of banking licenses), and he "wasn't sure which one they had, but we might have both".

Once the ridicule and all this started piling on, within 24 hours, he was removed from the bank's website leadership page. When people pointed out how suspicious that looked, he was -re-added-.

The bank then deleted the company's entire website and replaced it with a minimally edited WordPress site, where most of the links and buttons were non-functional and remained so for months thereafter.

I mean fuck it, if the cryptobros want to look at all that and say "seems legit to me", alright, let em.

[gbear605]

I didn’t go to Oxford, but going to your graduation ceremony isn’t usually a requirement for possessing a BA. The university just mails your diploma to you.

[chasd00]

Pretty simple background check would answer that question. If he’s claiming those credentials without actually having them I would assume it be common knowledge by now.

[BadHumans]

Someone became a US House Rep while lying about an education they did not have and a completely falsified resume. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that if he was lying everyone would know by now.