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CoGrammar/HyperionDev used a fake employer used for ‘fraudulent’ skills bootcamp cash claims

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u/michaelnovati replied ·
Wow that's quite a story, that I had to fact check the source, author and court records. It seems this was reported by only one source and they don't link to specific court records or sources. I'm very curious to know what's going on here because this sounds almost unbelievable. FE Week is a legit publication and the author reports on the field with an article a day so it seems legit but I have to check everything nowadays and the article doesn't list any specific sources to double check what happened Do you have links to the court records, I want to read more!

u/juanwannagomate wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I’m not an expert, but I don’t think the court records are available. The UK is different in that while people can attend an open hearing (and there was a hearing today in fact), I don’t think case files are public. The outcome of the case will be public however.  I think the au

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah it's definitely suspicious. I'm not a moderator anymore so I can't really dig into it more. I can't comment specifically about other programs because of legal advice, but I can say that I stand by my record of fairness as a moderator to try to uphold the integrity of the sub and having the same values now with less ability to impact the discussion.

u/juanwannagomate wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

It’s a shame, because I got a notification that HyperionDev had replied to my first post but I believe their account has such low karma that it got caught in the spam filter of this subreddit.  It’d probably just be a copy and paste of the comment I replied to anyway, but I was

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Well at least no one in the past month can accuse me of being an unfair moderator because I haven't been. My personal opinion trying to look at it objectively is not much has changes. When I was a moderator numerous posts were caught in the Reddit AI filters from all kinds of people who come out of no where trying to spread a strong opinion. If you don't have the reputation and credibility in the sub the rules are that you can't post or get distribution for those opinions no matter how loudly you yell about those opinions.