Question 109: Fraud

Are you familiar with or have you heard of a martial arts organization known as XXX? They are the home of the "XXX Hall of Fame", do you know the requirements or criteria for getting inducted, and is this hall of fame legit? This information is not available on their web site, and they will only give out the information via direct phone contact. They also claim to be able to award dan promotions pending a review of their "upgrade review board”, can they do this? I thought promotions in dan were only done through the organizations that originally issued them (aka...Kukkiwon, WTF, ITF, ATA etc...) Do dan promotions given by the XXX now compromise the validity of instructors promoted through the XXX? Do you know of a way that I can check to see if an instructor was promoted through their review board but do it anonymously?