The Certificate Authentication Department of the Shenzhen Talent Market has discovered that forgeries are being made of its own documents, reports Shenzhen Commercial Daily.

The department was initially set up to check diplomas submitted by job applicants for authenticity, as counterfeit degrees have become more prevalent.

Now document fabricators are forging the department's testimonies as well.

The forgery skills are getting better and better, too, said Chen, director of the department.

Some fake diplomas are so good that hardly any physical flaws are detectable, so the department must increasingly rely upon online resources to verify whether a diploma is genuine.

About 5 per cent of the more than 44,000 diplomas and certificates sent to the department for examination in the first half of this year were found to be fake, said the newspaper.

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