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

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By EditorDavidJun 14, 2025, 7:49 pm322 ptsTop
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…

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