According to an international school administrators report, more students from Myanmar are applying with fake matriculation certificates, where the QR codes are copied and linked to other website URLs.
Applications from Myanmar with fake certificates and false personal information now appear every week during school admissions. In the past, only names and roll numbers were changed, but QR codes on the certificates are now also being forged.
An administrator from an international school in Thailand told IMNA that some dishonest education agencies and some private international schools do not properly check documents, which gives more confidence to people who produce fake certificates.
“The website is also fake. A real certificate normally goes through the government website, but now even the website that the QR code connects to has a fake version. In my view, some private schools accept these fake documents, so more people feel confident using them. Some schools hardly check anything. As long as a Grade-10 certificate is shown and payment is possible, admission is given,” the administrator said.
He added that using false information to apply to international schools could lead to stricter checks on Myanmar students worldwide, including in Thailand. Scholarship students could also face problems because of this situation.
In recent days, Thai Immigration tightened checks on Language School Visas after finding a student from Chiang Mai University using fake information.
According to the Department of Examinations under the Military junta, matriculation certificates have included QR codes since 2024. Each QR code is officially linked through the government domain gov.mm to the department’s verification website verify.dme.gov.mm.
However, the Department of Examinations announced on November 24th that QR codes on fake matriculation certificates do not link to verify.dme.gov.mm. Instead, the fake QR codes connect to other website URLs.
The department explained that “some fake matriculation certificates include QR codes created by dishonest individuals. These QR codes do not link to verify.dme.gov.mm but connect to other website URLs. Only certificates that can be checked and confirmed through verify.dme.gov.mm are considered genuine by the Department of Examinations.”
Therefore, any certificate that connects to a different website URL is treated as a fake document. The Department of Examinations under the Military junta also stated that further actions are expected.
On social media, many pages openly provide fake document services. These services include fake matriculation certificates, university degrees, Grade-10-mark lists, transcripts, school recommendation letters, degree recommendation letters, Japanese language certificates (N4–N1), birth certificates, and other supporting documents.
