Saturday 21 January 2012

Fake emails from a fake PhD or his ball lickers

This blogger has been receiving fake emails. He will reveal so.
Following is the SMTP email header of the email received by
this blogger from an official (fake of course) at the University
of Wisconsin at Madison.

'Delivered-To: burmese.withfakephds@gmail.com
Received: by 10.182.114.98 with SMTP id jf2cs335169obb;
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:07:27 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.50.76.225 with SMTP id n1mr24022698igw.11.1326917245115;
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:07:25 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <smhahn@wisc.edu>
Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu.
[144.92.197.211])'

Likewise, following is the SMTP email header of another email sent to
this blogger from a HR staff at London School of Econonmics (LSE)
across the Atlantic ocean.

'Delivered-To: burmese.withfakephds@gmail.com
Received: by 10.182.114.98 with SMTP id jf2cs9223obb;
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:39:26 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.68.72.39 with SMTP id a7mr51234248pbv.96.1326965965031;
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:39:25 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <Hr.Jobs@lse.ac.uk>
Received: from mail1.bemta5.messagelabs.com (mail1.bemta5.messagelabs.com.
[195.245.231.130])'

Look at both, they are received by the same server, that means a single
SMTP email server is serving both universities: LSE in London, UK and
University of Wisconsin at Madison, US. Ain't it weird? Blogger felt so!

If you do not know how email works. See two following web links:

(1) How email works
http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/smtp.htm
(2) SMTP protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol

The blogger will not stop there. It is time to dissect the faker's or fakers'
pathetic English prose copied and pasted as follows:

'Dear Ma'am or Sir:

Per your request of 16 January 2012 (below), this email is to indeed
confirm that Dr. Zar Ni earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin
-Madison's graduate program in Curriculum and Instruction in 1998.  Further
inquiries on this matter may be directed to the Office of the Registrar of
this university.

Sincerely,

Steve Hahn
--
Steven M. Hahn
Assistant Dean
The Graduate School
Admissions & Academic Services
University of Wisconsin - Madison'

That gave your poor blogger a good laugh. Anyone works with westerners, or Europeans and their cousins can sense that above email was not written by an educated American working as a dean at a public ivy league university.

Even your humble blogger with bogus PhDs can correct that English to make it become decent. But
it will not be necessary as an assistant dean will not bother with enquiries for degrees. As exposed in a previous essay, Dr. Alexandra Walter, is the official who validates graduate transcripts, all academic matters. See the link below about inquiry to Dr. Alexandra Walter about Mr. Zar Ni.

'From: Alexandra Walter <atwalter@grad.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:32:57 -0600
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Askmem-l]  XXXXXXX on Zarni or Maung Zarni
To:  XXXXXXX < XXXXXXX xxx@xxxxx>

I'm not finding anyone by that name either, but I'm afraid that's not much of a confirmation for you.  Recently a PhD called me asking for information, and it took several tries with different spellings before I could find his name.'

http://burmesewithfakephds.blogspot.com/2011/11/dr-zarni-dr-maung-zarni-or-merely.html

That is how a native speaker will write. That is how they will make sure their email will not be used or abused by the recipient. Note the "but" statement, that protects him against any quotes that could
put him in the hot water. Regarding UW Madison degrees, he is the sole point of contact for degrees. See link below to see his role:
http://www.grad.wisc.edu/contacts/acadservices.html

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