Handing out diplomas is big business these days, and not just for the colleges and universities that actually expect you to go to class to earn one. “Diploma mills,” online companies which churn out fake diplomas, either purporting to be from real, prestigious schools, or from obscure schools which aren’t actually schools at all, have become a major problem for employers seeking to verify the credentials of job applicants. Now, two members of the US Congress have “asked the [Government Accounting Office] to investigate the matter after reports surfaced last summer that a high-level employee in the Homeland Security Department claimed to have three degrees from a suspected diploma mill.”