{"id":33072,"date":"2025-11-18T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=33072"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:07:04","slug":"uk-certificate-mill-claims-to-have-certified-toyota-and-deloitte-hasnt-had-revenue-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/uk-certificate-mill-claims-to-have-certified-toyota-and-deloitte-hasnt-had-revenue-since-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Certificate Mill Claims to have Certified Toyota and Deloitte, Hasn’t Had Revenue Since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Anthony Wood, the certificate mill operator out of the UK who operates Management Certification Ltd. (MCERT). The UK website<\/a> for MCERT claims to have certified companies like Ramada, Toyota, Suzuki and the global consulting firm Deloitte, all while holding fake accreditations from two made-up bodies, United Accreditation Service (UAS) and the International Management Accreditation Board (IMAB).<\/p>\n

While calling MCERT a “trusted partner,<\/em>” — so, for sure, his claims must be true, right?\u00a0— Wood sells both consulting and certification for the cheap price of only\u00a3750 ($986). He’ll hand you a bunch of bad template documents and then a “fully accredited<\/em>” certificate in only seven days.<\/p>\n

The problem is, UK business filings show MCERT as “dormant<\/em>” since 2016. This means<\/a> the company has had no reportable revenue in all those years. The most recent filing from Wood, as of April 2024, looks like this:<\/p>\n

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You’d think with clients like that, Wood would be making some money.<\/p>\n

Wood also claims a number of five-star reviews on Google, but these appear to come largely out of Romania. Some of them are current, too, creating a tax problem for Wood. His official filings with the UK government claim no revenue, and yet his Google reviews claim he was selling services (to Romanians, anyway) as of just a few months ago.<\/p>\n

Clicking down that rabbithole, one finds that the real location for MCERT is in Romania, after all, and they even have their own website<\/a> in that country. So whether Anthony Wood is (a) a fake name, (b) a Romanian posing as a Brit, or (c) a UK scammer who agreed to help the Romanians rip off Brits… none of those are good options.<\/p>\n

No matter how you look at it, all of this is fraud, pure and simple. But governments have refused ot make the exploding certificate mill industry illegal, so scammers thrive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anthony Wood should probably be arrested, if he even exists.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[439,8787,8784,8785,8786],"class_list":["post-33072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-certificate-mill","tag-imab","tag-mcert","tag-romania","tag-uas","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33076,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33072\/revisions\/33076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}