31-year-old Muhammad Rasul Kadir Ali pleaded guilty to two charges of using a forged polytechnic document and cheating by personation, and he was sentenced to 3 weeks imprisonment on 5 October, according to TODAY.
He had submitted a forged diploma to get a job as a fire safety manager.
Rasul also put himself as his own reference contact so as to give good feedback about himself by impersonating them.
He was eventually caught after a human resources manager at SPH Retail Property Management Services called the two reference contacts and noticed that their voices sounded the same, before conducting a check after finding it suspicious.
Rasul was apparently reluctant at first to forge the diploma but didn’t want to spend 2 years in school to get the proper certifications and qualifications.
He eventually went ahead and faked his diploma instead, and also submitted it to another company.