This article is mixing multiple frauds. Mostly it's people getting free .edu email address which allows discounts on software and other things. This is most of

This article is mixing multiple frauds. Mostly it's people getting free .edu email address which allows discounts on software and other things. This is most of the 65K fake students. Then there's the fraud, where students are paying people $ to take their classes to get the government $$$$ - "However, Rich soon realized that all of the work being submitted by four students was clearly being completed by an individual who wasn’t a student in the class." https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/california-community-college-overrun-with-fake-students-bots-whistleblower_4092548.html?welcomeuser=1 https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/california-co... This might be why middle names are missing. That data is unknown but the other data real. I suspect they are wrong about the third type of external fraud, but not sure. Then there's the fraud where the College gets benefits from student numbers so allows the spam.