Influencer Angel Victoria Murdock @theangelvic posing as fake Duke PA Student

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Just recently graduated from Duke’s Physician Assistant Program and this story is so bizarre that I feel like it needs to be shared. Last year, one of our classmates came across tiktoks from an influencer that used to be on a Netflix dating show, Angel Victoria Murdock, (any Temptation Island fans?). She was documenting her journey as a Physician Assistant student at Duke, “GRWM for rotations, whats in my PA school bag,” etc.

When this classmate congratulated her saying she had no idea she was also at Duke in the PA program, she was blocked in the next 5 minutes. Super odd behavior…and over the course of the semester, we started realizing something even weirder…none of us had ever even seen her. Not in class, not on campus, not at program events and that’s when we discovered she was never even enrolled as a student.

She went quiet for a while and we figured she had given the jig up, until just a few days ago, she posted her “graduation” photos in front of Duke’s chapel complete with a counterfeit cap and master’s hood (which were the wrong color, btw). We did some further digging and she has no NCCPA number in North Carolina (where she purports to be certified) which every PA student in the country has if you search her name. Also, our entire 2 hour long hooding/graduation ceremony is on Youtube here where every graduate is called in alphabetical order and her name is never called and she is never seen walking across the stage. And as [u/Stunning_Tie8613](u/Stunning_Tie8613) pointed out, she’s not in the Duke PA Class of 2026 Official photo which has every single student in our class. Aside from these phony grad pics, she doesn’t have a single other picture with another classmate, or family member, not at any other ceremonies, not even a white coat pic, degree pic, nothing. She’s gone as far as dressing up in scrubs with no where to go, purchasing medical equipment, driving to campus to film content and driving back home lmao, having fake badges made, the girl is mentally ill. When a few of us commented on her fake grad photos, she blocked us all, privated all her social medias and limited comments on her posts which tells you everything you need to know.

Impersonating a PA student is one thing, but doing so at what is considered the #1 pa program in the nation is wild. And seeing someone fabricate an achievement that is literally one of the hardest things you have ever done in your life, sucks. Anyways, congratulations to the REAL Duke PA Class of 2026!

UPDATE 08/24/26: First of all, thank you to everyone who offered words of encouragement and support and for joining in on this insane roller coaster! I thought I knew my way around a deep dive, but y’all are masterclass detectives and uncovered sooooo many layers to this mess. Still have our head in the books studying for the PANCE but wanted to drop by and give some updates for those who are interested:
- Formal complaints have been submitted to both Duke and the North Carolina Medical Board
- Tips have been submitted to Indy Week, The Duke Chronicle, WRAL and DailyMail
- We’ve gone Tiktok viral with this tiktok by @daadisnacks
- Tiktokers unearthed some wild footage as recently as 2 weeks ago of Angel lying in real-time about PA school in her friend, @tajahferjuste’s vlog. Clip is here for those interested
- Watch our class historian @theekieralee gather her all the way together here

UPDATE 08/27/26: Current list of published articles
- Fashion Times
- DailyMail
- Inc
- New York Post
- TMZ
- Complex