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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Latest academic spam/scam: being overwhelmed with solicitations from recommendation letter mills, where they pay professors to write (or just sign) "evaluations" on behalf of foreign students, apparently for visa purposes.
Sometimes the spam comes directly from individuals, but now I'm getting services that arrange this trying to recruit me.
While I'm certainly sympathetic to the plight of talented students who want to study or move here, this has red flags all over it.
Stay the hell away.