Microsoft MVP Team confirms you can fake MVP title if you are forced by your company

I contacted mvpga@microsoft.com to report a faking MVP case. It’s about a current MVP called Xu Yang, who was one of the owners of a training company called Ruanmou (软谋)in China. His mvp profile link is https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003795?fullName=Yang%20Xu

However, I got the following feedback from Microsoft MVP team.

They believe that Xu Yang is forced to promote like this instead of he know that. Then MVP group just ignored this report and keep his MVP AS IS. In other words, if faking Microsoft MVP is not intended by you, you can do that.

The Evidence I got from Internet

As the MVP profile shows, he got his first MVP in 2020 instead of 2018. However, I got a training marketing post in Chinese 4 years ago (around 2017–2018). In the tutor introduction, you can find that Eleven (English name of Xu Yang) states that he is Microsoft MVP (微软MVP in Chinese).

He definitely faked the MVP title 4 years ago while he promotes his .NET training. I can totally understand his purpose: to tell the public and potential trainees that he is a professional guy certificated or credited by Microsoft.

Why I say Xu yang knows the faking thing very well

Here is another post which can be searched by google. The link is here. Although the preview image is not so clear, you can still see some key words. He states himself as the cofounder (联合创始人 in Chinese). And he states that he is 3 years Microsoft MVP (连续3届微软MVP). However, this post is also very old because Xu Yang opens his own training company in 2019, which means he has left Ruanmou in 2019 and this post must be earlier than 2019. But Xu Yang IS NOT Microsoft MVP at all in 2019.

He is the only speaker for this event. I believe he must read this promotion post and he is the co-founder instead of staff. That’s very different.