Gullible suburban mother of four regularly duped in her half-century life. Exploring hoaxes and schemes as the ExSCAMiner, she attempts answering the nagging question: Should I have fallen for that? Got scam tips, email Karin at ScamExaminer@gmail.com.

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Business ethics (or lack of them)

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July 22, 6:18 PM

by Karin Malchow, Scam Examiner

As Calvin Coolidge said: The business of America is business.

With the new school year coming up, up to 6,000 business school graduate students still wait with bated breath. They may have cheated on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), accessing "live" (currently on the test) questions on the VIP forum of Scoretop.com.

Some of them may have already graduated. The Graduate Management Admission Council investigated and pursued legal action for five years, getting a $2.35 million dollar + legal fees judgment this June. Now they're sifting through Scoretop's confiscated hardware, determining which students knew they were cheating. After revoking those student's scores, it's up to the universities what to do with the applicants they accepted.

A survey conducted between 2002-2004 ranked MBA candidates as the top self-reported cheater group among graduate students; 56% acknowledged cheating in the previous year. The most commonly expressed reason: Everybody else is doing it.

Hate to pick on MBAs when reported cheating in other graduate programs is also high, but business ethics affect investors and consumers alike, meaning pretty much everybody. Besides, lawyers already get their share of grief.

For a non-cheating alternative: GMAT preparation software is available through MBA.com.

Topics: cheating , MBA , GMAT

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