Illegal Spas With Fake Certificates Can Be A Hazard - Make Sure You Visit Only The Legit Ones

Have you ever thought of getting a rejuvenating and invigorating massage at a popular spa around you? How do you choose one out of several such outlets ? Have you had a negative experience having visited a place well-known for such relaxing activities but being really disappointed with their services ? Wait! Did you actually visit an authentic and certified spa with professionally trained staff ? You may say how does one get to know that for sure and attribute your disappointing experience to it being an odd day. Well, things are not that simple. In fact, there are many illegal spas operating everywhere and it’s possible you may have also gone to one of them. Yes, illegal spas with fake certificates are becoming too commonplace these days and in a recent crackdown in Maharagama, Sri Lanka, statistics from the Health Ministry say that 300 illegal spas have been identified. The area only has 4 legally approved spas where both the locals and the foreigners can take advantage of legit spa services.

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2018/06/04/legal-advice-sought-to-take-action-on-illegal-spas/

All the 300 spas operating in the area had the certificates to operate in that area but they had all been forged or reproduced somehow making them all illegal. They might have used illegitimate means to obtain the certificates bypassing all the screening processes and, with no official check on them, their services are unlikely to be up to the required standards set forth by the health ministry. Well, document fraud is not just rampant in the spa industry, it’s almost everywhere. Getting fake certificates, degrees, and identities has become all the more easier nowadays with agents operating everywhere and forging documents for a few dollars only. Nevertheless, there’s a way to stop most if not all such document frauds and spot such scammers. In another instance, some spas in Japan were investigated for operating with fake hot springs instead of authentic ones which use uncontaminated water coming directly from a natural source. One of them was revealed to have been using artificial products to give the water a milky color. Such practices usually happen due to lack of proper check from authorities or an absence of a way to certify the same to the users after checks have been carried out. One way of doing that would be to issue proper certificates after thorough screening of the facilities which can be verified easily by anyone.

https://www.americanspa.com/japanese-government-investigating-fake-hot-springs

Yes, with the smart use of technology, all this can be put to rest. A simple thing that the issuing authorities need to do is to embed their certificates with secure QR codes signed with their private keys. These QR codes can then be used for ascertaining whether or not the documents and certificates are authentic. In fact, this technology is nothing new and Qryptal is already providing such QR codes to secure documents to multitude of clients across various industries. The QR code technology from Qryptal assigns a unique QR code to every document that will contain the major details and can be scanned to verify the authenticity of the document anywhere and whenever needed. The QR code authentication works for all sorts of documents be it certificates, IDs, invoices or educational degrees. The authentication can be performed by anyone with the help of Qryptal’s document validator mobile app . The best part is that, Qryptal offers the most secure QR code technology and once the information has been stored in a QR code, it can’t be changed or forged. Even the app can only read and validate the QR code and can’t make any changes to it. Here is an example of such a business license with the QR code and the verification result that you see when scanned with the document validator app

Authorities can make use of this technology to avoid the propagation of fake certificates and put a stop to document fraud. Even the legitimate spas can make their certificates accessible so that people can scan the QR codes signed by the issuing authority and avail their services with full confidence. We hope this becomes common practice so that people can enjoy themselves with peace of mind and get the service that they expect and deserve !