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WITH just an online chat contact posted on several forums, a China national managed to rake in thousands of dollars peddling fake degrees from Singapore universities.

The New Paper on Sunday tracked down the fake degree peddler, a 24-year-old China national from a local polytechnic, on a popular Chinese forum based in Singapore.

Posing as a prospective customer interested in a fake degree, a reporter sent a message to him on the QQ instant messenger.

The man replied after a few hours with an instant message, identifying himself as an employee of Idea Consultant Group, accompany which provides "fast bachelors and masters degrees", according to a write-up on its website.