Concepts College redux

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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:55 am

Long time members will remember Concepts College, London, not AFF but what basically appeared to be a dodgy arrangement where you paid money up front, got a UK student visa, then disappeared into the ether once in the UK. They had a hilarious webiste, complete with photo gallery.

One fun night we all joined their forum at once. They locked it the next day, we were all very tired and hung over by then.

The UK finally woke up to what was going on, and pulled a lot of student visas and looked into the colleges.

I just checked their website and guess what?

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This site has been suspended

Next stop Companies House:

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Active - Proposal to Strike off as of 6 Jan 2013

Regards to Dr Eze Marcel, I wonder what he's doing now? I seem to remember he had a restaurant too, selling bush meat.

ETA: Google has him in Abuja, selling instant degrees:

http://www.finestrockmagazine.com/events.html

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:34 pm

I wasn't active, but I remember reading that. Great fun. Didn't Connie use the secretary picture as his avatar?

A 3 month top-up programme? That would be laughed out of any self-respecting university. Laughing

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:56 pm

That was a laugh. Laughing

However...

http://www.conceptscollegeuk.com/

That logo looks very familiar. I check up on them every once in while myself, but never know where to take it or if I can be bothered with them anymore. Confused

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Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.com
Contact: [email protected]
Visit: http://namecheap.com

Domain name: CONCEPTSCOLLEGEUK.COM

Registrant Contact:
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Fax:
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Administrative Contact:
TD Webhosting
Trudigits Webhosting ([email protected])
+234.8038138483
Fax:
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Technical Contact:
TD Webhosting
Trudigits Webhosting ([email protected])
+234.8038138483
Fax:
NG
PH, RV 23456
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Status: Locked

Name Servers:
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Creation date: 10 May 2012 18:08:00
Expiration date: 10 May 2013 10:08:00

Happy new year to all baiters!

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:58 pm

That was some fun stuff.
I wonder if it's time for a concepts reunion, though .... some still around it seems.

http://conceptsuniversitycolleges.com/
http://www.conceptscollegeuk.com/
http://conceptscollegeuk.com/

Hmmmmmm?

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:59 pm

He seems to be more into this distance learning now, I think you send him money, and get a diploma, basically. The address of the college on the website is 40 Thorne Road, London SW8 2BZ, Google streetview gives a unsigned shop, which I think is the old adress that was in the old website pictures. It also leads to this:

http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/909172502

Marcel Okechukwu Ezenwoye

Yep, thats him.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:16 pm

You should know you can't keep a good man down. Laughing

http://www.dbceduservicesltd.com/p/contact-us_6.html

He isn't a director, I hasten to add, but it does add reassuringly, in case you had any concerns.

http://www.dbceduservicesltd.com/p/blog-page.html

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We do Western Union Money Transfer: Send and Receive

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:38 am

Cougar wrote:

I wasn't active, but I remember reading that. Great fun. Didn't Connie use the secretary picture as his avatar?
lol:

Yes I did have one of the secretary's photos as my avatar. I've had my hand on the mouse at Concepts College ever since and still remember that night of relentless postwhoring. The webmaster must have freaked out when he saw the bill for the data transfer charges.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:08 pm

firehouse5 wrote:

http://conceptsuniversitycolleges.com/
http://www.conceptscollegeuk.com/
http://conceptscollegeuk.com/

Hmmm . . . all three have identical course offerings.

TerranceBoyce wrote:

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We do Western Union Money Transfer: Send and Receive

Of course they do.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:15 pm

I fondly remember the Concepts College "event". It seemed that just about every member of 419eater was on their forum, posting all sorts of insane stuff.....good times.

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:17 am

I think this was before I arrived in the facility also.Perhaps someone needs to plan a reunion? Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:47 am

I have compulsive Google disorder (among quite a few others Laughing

) and couldn't resist looking at the multifarious activities of Mr Ezenwoye. His bus making endeavours being merely one sideline and he claimed to be producing 10,000 a month I believe. Shocked

http://www.africabusinesscommunities.com/index.php/rss-abc-news/1738-plans-to-produce-10000-buses-per-month-dr-marcel-okechukwu-ezenwoye-chairman-ceo-zhope-automobile-ltd

The wonders of Meccano sets.

When you read the things he gets up to he just cracks me up.

A recent photo

He's wearing the tomato.

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:14 am

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Now, we need capital in the form of soft loans that would enable us to take off, bring in the necessary equipment that would ease the domestication of the product we have in mind. Now, we are talking about expatriates, professional foreigners whom we want to involve that would help us to improve our capacity

So, investors wanted. Western Union acceptable, no doubt.

Zhope Automobiles

Dealers wanted, please send a million Naira upfront. The London address is very familiar - Concepts College!

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:49 am

In case you wanted to know where the photo came from, it was here

http://www.nanngronline.com/picture/news-conference-on-the-un-house-bomb-blast

What this had to do with him is anyone's guess. He just appears to pop up at random in the strangest places.

I must post this up - a photo of his 'concept car'. Anyone would think he's taking a pop at me specially. Laughing

Lovely jubbly Rodney. Nigeria's very own Del Boy.

From here

http://www.wand.com/core/product.aspx?sid=20484