Walter Mzembi calls himself Dr Mzembi, but there’s a problem—his doctorate comes from a university that doesn’t exist. A school with the same name doesn’t even offer PhDs. The synopsis he submitted? It points to someone else. It gets deeper. Mzembi claims to have graduated from UNISA in South Africa, yet his degree is from a university in the Philippines. A metadata analysis reveals his synopsis was finalised on December 2, 2015. Just five days later, he had a PhD. How did this happen? We investigate the truth behind Mzembi’s mysterious doctorate.