HEC has issued a public advisory warning students, graduates, and other applicants against fraudulent individuals posing as attestation agents and offering document attestation services on its behalf, urging the public to use only official digital channels for all attestation-related matters and to avoid sharing personal or educational information with any unauthorised third party.
The advisory follows reports received by the commission of individuals falsely claiming to provide attestation services on behalf of HEC, targeting students and graduates who may be unfamiliar with the official process or who are seeking faster or more convenient alternatives to the commission’s own systems. HEC clarified that its attestation process is entirely online and paperless, meaning there is no legitimate scenario in which a physical agent or intermediary is required to process an attestation request on someone’s behalf. All applications must be submitted directly through the commission’s official e-services portal, and any individual claiming otherwise is misrepresenting their role and potentially misusing the applicants’ personal and academic information.
HEC has directed all applicants requiring assistance to use its official e-services portal and online help desk for support, both of which are accessible through the commission’s website. Citizens have been urged to remain vigilant and take active steps to protect their academic credentials from misuse, particularly given that degree attestation is a requirement for overseas employment, further education abroad, and a range of formal verification processes where the integrity of the document is critical. The commission’s shift to a fully digital attestation model, which was announced earlier in 2026 as part of its broader paperless degree attestation initiative, is precisely the kind of process that fraudulent operators tend to exploit by inserting themselves as unnecessary intermediaries between applicants and government services, often collecting fees without delivering any legitimate outcome.
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