In response to the widely reported scandals in late 2007 involving well-known university professors, government officials, and television personalities in South Korea that had forged academic credentials from both domestic and international universities, the KCUE established its Academic Records Verification Service in September 2007.

To Giacometti it said, "Can the Rome party be of any use in forging credentials which would admit one of us to the Library?

I could try forging credentials, but if they double-checked, they'd find out I was phony.

In March 1992, Tai was discovered of not having passed his professional examination in England and forging credentials to enable him to practise as a solicitor since 1983.

Shortly afterwards he forged credentials to become a company doctor in Lima, Peru.

The doctor who had ordered Jeremy's admission had forged medical credentials and has since been stripped of his license.