It just does not add up

We tried verifying Kamal bin Nathan’s Edith Cowan University certificate but it appears like what he uploaded onto his Blog may be a fake certificate after all. The certificate in fact raises more questions than it provided answers. Is this certificate a forgery?

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Kamal bin Nathan has uploaded a copy of his certificate onto his Blog as promised. You can see it below. It carries the name P. Kamalanathanlp. Panchanathan, parchment number 2004100372, and the date 23rd January 2004.

However, a search that we did still does not produce any results whereas we did two other searches on other people (also Olympia College twinning students) and they came back positive (see below). We also tried using six different name variations but they all came back blank.

You can try it yourself here: https://simo.ecu.edu.au/ecudev_calprod/ecu_graduates.jsp

Note that the name we used in the search on Claire was not complete yet it came back positive. It could still trace the details even with the incomplete name.

Another thing to note is the parchment number for Lee who graduated for the same course at the same time as Kamal. Lee’s parchment carries the number 2004103798 while Kamal’s parchment number is 2004100372. That means Kamal got his certificate earlier and Lee got his, although at the same time, 3,426 students later. Assuming Kamal got his certificate first and Lee last, that means almost 3,500 students were awarded their certificates for the same course that day.

Does this not all look very suspicious?