US Edition‘Ghost Students’: Why this growing scam is spooking students, educators
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‘Ghost Students’: Why this growing scam is spooking students, educators
It's a growing form of fraud in higher education: criminals creating fake student enrollments using stolen or made-up identities to illegally claim financial aid. Consumer Investigator Caresse Jackman spoke with the U.S. Department of Education to learn how this scheme works and how you can help stop it.
A tense situation is being experienced in the city of Moquegua, where students and parents have taken the facilities of the ITEP educational institution, demanding the full refund of the money paid for tuition fees and studies. The protest is due to an alleged scam: the students enrolled for a "Technology Institute" and, according to them, the institution turned out to be a "Cetpro" (Productive Technical Education Center). The protest mobilized …
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