Graduates have been cautioned not to share certificate selfies online as fraudsters use them to create fake certificate.
Counterfeiters can use photos of certificates to copy designs such as logos, crests, signatories and even holograms to make bogus certificates.
Documents are then sold on the black market for up to £220 to assist unqualified candidates dupe potential employers. The number of forgeries has increased by 30 per in the past year.
Fakes are so rampant and is now considered a menace that 20 universities, including Imperial College London and Cardiff University have introduced digital certificates.
Employers are then given log-in details to check the education credentials of potential graduate employers.
Jayne Rowley, chief executive of the Higher Education Degree Datacheck service, said that ‘the selfie generation and the need to share these things online’, was aiding the multi-million-pound trade.
But universities affected were also ‘the ones for which forgers have been able to get a good image of a certificate’.
Miss Rowley added: ‘If you want to set up a fake certificate website then Google is your friend. We’ll be sending out advice to universities reminding them: please tell your students not to post pictures of their certificates.



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