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Kinda looks like this guy, who appears to responsible for at least a decent portion of the examples in the WaPo story, is a run of the mill scammer who has already been caught:

http://structuredsettlements.typepad.com/structured_settleme...

This is his LinkedIn profile. Another proud Stanford grad. https://www.linkedin.com/in/richartruddiestanford

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His linkedin claims he took 1 Stanford class, and the notes he claims he wrote were clearly written by someone else (it's on Sukru Burc Eryilmaz's personal page).

He went to Florida Atlantic University for his Bachelor's degree. He gets a nice headline in his education as Stanford, but he definitely did not attend for any degree.

So he is... being creative with his education profile. Given what he is involved in now, that seems on par.

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