> it's probably an amateur researcher which published that information in a blog which is usually read by no-one.

Ah, but this is the new method of SEO trickery and credential scamming. Publishing a 'guest post' on a high-ranking blog subdomain of a trusted instititution. There was a story of someone doing this on Harvard University's blogs, which I can't find right now.

But I found something even better. An actual UpWork posting promising to publish your crap on Chapman.edu's university blog:

https://www.upwork.com/services/product/5-high-da-dofollow-g...