Four Pennsylvania men apparently managed to infect PC's with trojans at 60 Pennsylvania businesses and the Pennsylvania State Senate. The group then used those IP addresses in order to send spam for a bogus on-line University they'd created; a University of such class, one recent investigator was able to get his cat an MBA.

For an additional $99, the state claims the investigator received the cat's transcript, which showed it received a 3.5 GPA, receiving A's and B's for most of the classes "attended". Users pay $599 for Doctorates, and $499 for such "executive MBA" degrees.

"No classes to attend and no classes to take!" lauds the University's website, which buckled under traffic at around 1pm as this was being written. The site also proclaims their degrees are accredited and "100% verifiable", and that applicants can take life experience - such as dog walking, public urination, or whatever else - and apply it to receive a degree.

"It is clear to us that this degree service is not designed for entertainment purposes but to deceive consumers and/or prospective employers into believing that TSU graduates have legitimately earned a Bachelor's, Master's or Ph.D. degree in a particular field of study," miraculously concludes Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert.

"These diplomas have no value in the job market except to harm genuinely accredited colleges and universities and their online academic programs." Pappert filed civil suit in Pennsylvania court yesterday, accusing the defendants of violating Pennsylvania's Unsolicited Telecommunication Advertisement Act and Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law.

The high volume of resumes that come up from a simple Google search is somewhat frightening.