Re: Verifying a CCIE for a friend... spider senses tingling

I agree that people should be a bit careful with personal info.

What's very strange is this guy has a full LinkedIn profile... name,
university, past jobs, supervisor names, hundreds of connections,
recommendations, everything is complete... except for a CCIE number.

Humphrey

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Sidney D'Souza <mail.sidney_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Rob that personal info should be hidden considering the day and
> age we live in but hiding your educational qualifications from your employer
> is for me being too paranoid. Its like saying youll have to take my word
> for it that I am a CCIE.
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> Regards,
>
> Sid
>
> Nobody's really listening, until you make a mistake...
>
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>
> From: me you [mailto:anunda19_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: 13 June 2012 11:02
> To: Sidney D'Souza
> Cc: Humphrey Cheung; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Verifying a CCIE for a friend... spider senses tingling
>
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>
> Don't assume anything about him because he hides is personal info. I try to
> hide all my personal information because you never know when someone will
> use your personal info the wrong way.
>
>
>
> Rob
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Sidney D'Souza <mail.sidney_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> People take pride in displaying their CCIE# so your friend should have smelt
> something fishy when the guy refused to disclose his CCIE number. Just tell
> your friend to take it up with HR and demand his credentials. His number can
> be verified on the Cisco web site below.
>
> https://sso.cisco.com/autho/forms/CDClogin.html
>
> You will need to create a CCO ID before you can verify a Certification
> number.
>
> Regards,
> Sid
> Nobody's really listening, until you make a mistake...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Humphrey Cheung
>
> Sent: 13 June 2012 09:03
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: Verifying a CCIE for a friend... spider senses tingling
>
> This is a strange situation at my friend's company... wanted to get some
> ideas. I'm helping him verify the status of a supposed CCIE.
> I'll keep the names anonymous.
>
> Company hires new network admin
> Network has crashed dozens of times since the new guy has been hired Network
> admin claims to be a CCIE Network admin doesn't divulge a number... doesn't
> sign his emails with his number, doesn't have his number on LinkedIn Looking
> at the guy's job history, he's worked at big name company's...
> but generally lasts less than a year
> Quick Google/LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter/etc search shows no hits for his name
> and anything saying CCIE or a number (permutations of first name and common
> nicknames were used in the search just in case we were missing anything)
> Since there's no number, can't use the Cisco verification tool because it
> requires a first/last name, cert type and number
>
> Any pointers on where else to look? I think we're about 90% sure this guy
> isn't a CCIE... but I think there's no actual smoking gun that says, "this
> first name and last name is not and never has been a CCIE"
>
> I'm at Cisco Live until Thursday evening.. if you want to unicast me.
>
> Thanks,
>
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