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122 'Ghost' Students are Enrolling in US Colleges Just to Steal Financial Aid

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 06/14/2025 19:49 EDT

'Ghost' Students are Enrolling in US Colleges Just to Steal Financial Aid

Here's a lesson for today's colleges from the Associated Press. Online classes + AI = financial aid fraud.

"In some cases, professors discover almost no one in their class is real..."
Fake college enrollments have been surging as crime rings deploy "ghost students" — chatbots that join online classrooms and stay just long enough to collect a financial aid check... Students get locked out of the classes they need to graduate as bots push courses over their enrollment limits.
And victims of identity theft.

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