'NASA scholarship': Malaysian student claims that he was scammed

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When one receives good news, it’s only natural to want to share it with everybody.

Especially when the news involves an astounding personal achievement like winning a prestigious scholarship from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Which is exactly what Muhammad Azhar Ali did. On April 30, the 20-year-old student excitedly shared on his Twitter account the amazing news that he had scored in the top 1 per cent of over 3.6 million participants in a 2020 NASA Artemis Student Challenge to design a spacesuit that would adjust to the Artemis 2024 mission to Mars.

His tweet was accompanied by a screenshot of an email supposedly sent by NASA representative Rene Holland to inform him that he had been offered a NASA Degree scholarship by the National University of Singapore (NUS), and a screenshot of his profile photo above the caption “Azhar Ali, Citizen Scientist” on NASA’s website, apparently taken with his mobile phone.

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